Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp return after 'global outage' - The Rugby Observer

Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp return after 'global outage'

Rugby Editorial 5th Oct, 2021   0

FACEBOOK has apologised for a global outage which saw platforms including Instagram and Whatsapp go down for several hours on Monday.

The social media giant blamed a ‘faulty configuration change’ for the widespread outage, adding that there was no evidence any user data had been compromised.

Thousands of people reported being unable to access Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp from around 5pm on Monday afternoon.

Users of the platforms were met with error messages saying that feeds could not be refreshed.




Facebook and Instagram feeds started to slowly return just before 11pm, while WhatsApp confirmed its services were up and running in the early hours of this morning (Tuesday)

Facebook had to resort to using social media rival Twitter to confirm to its users that they were aware of issues and working to resolve them.


The company then issued an apology for the outage at around 11.30pm. A statement read: “To the huge community of people and businesses around the world who depend on us: we’re sorry.

“We’ve been working hard to restore access to our apps and services and are happy to report they are coming back online now. Thank you for bearing with us.”

“Our engineering teams have learned that configuration changes on the backbone routers that coordinate network traffic between our data centres caused issues that interrupted this communication,” a statement explained.

“This disruption to network traffic had a cascading effect on the way our data centres communicate, bringing our services to a halt.

“We want to make clear at this time we believe the root cause of this outage was a faulty configuration change. We also have no evidence that user data was compromised as a result of this downtime.”

The platform added it was working to understand more about the outage in order to “make our infrastructure more resilient”.

As people found other ways to spend their evening amid the outage, Twitter joked: “Hello literally everyone.”

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