Facebook says root cause of outage was faulty configuration change

Facebook blames outage on error during routine maintenance

Engineers were updating the social network's global backbone network when the error occurred.

Facebook blames outage on error during routine maintenance

Engineers were updating the social network's global backbone network when the error occurred.

Facebook blames outage on error during routine maintenance

LONDON (AP) — The global outage that knocked Facebook and its other platforms offline for hours was caused by an error during routine maintenance, the company said.Santosh Janardhan, Facebook’s vice president of infrastructure, said in a blog post that Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp going dark was “caused not by malicious activity, but an error of our own making."The problem occurred as engineers were carrying out day to day work on Facebook's…

Facebook blames outage on error during routine maintenance, not malicious activity

The global outage that knocked Facebook and its other platforms offline for hours was "caused not by malicious activity, but an error of our own making," the company said.

Facebook blames outage on error during routine maintenance, not malicious activity

The global outage that knocked Facebook and its other platforms offline for hours was "caused not by malicious activity, but an error of our own making," the company said.

Facebook blames outage on error during routine maintenance, not malicious activity

The global outage that knocked Facebook and its other platforms offline for hours was "caused not by malicious activity, but an error of our own making," the company said.