Facebook Blames Nearly 6-Hour Outage On Router Work
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Facebook Outage: The outage affected company's 3.5 billion users from accessing its social media and messaging services.
Facebook blamed the outage on configuration changes it made to routers that coordinate network traffic between its data centers.
"This disruption to network traffic had a cascading effect on the way our data centers communicate, bringing our services to a halt," Facebook vice president of infrastructure Santosh Janardhan said in a post.
Cyber security expert Brian Krebs described what happened as Facebook taking away "the map telling the world's computers how to find its various online properties."
In addition to the disruption to people, businesses and others that rely on the company's tools, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took a financial hit.
