Global outage hits Facebook services
A global outage plunged Facebook, its Instagram and WhatsApp platforms, and many people who rely heavily on these services — including Facebook’s own workforce — into chaos Monday.
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A global outage plunged Facebook, its Instagram and WhatsApp platforms, and many people who rely heavily on these services — including Facebook’s own workforce — into chaos Monday.
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The company apologized and said it is working to understand more about the cause
Facebook said late Monday that "the root cause of this outage was a faulty configuration change" and that there is "no evidence that user data was compromised as a result" of the outage.
On Monday, a widespread Facebook outage affected up to three billion people around the world who rely on the company’s services. As one user put it, the outage was a “huge awakening that social media controls so much of my success in business.”