Social media giant Facebook Inc cited faulty configuration changes on its routers as the root cause of the nearly six-hour outage that prevented the company’s 3.5 billion users from accessing its social media and messaging services. “Our engineering teams have learned that configuration changes on the backbone routers that coordinate network traffic between our data...
Day: <span>5 October 2021</span>
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Virgin Money Closes 31 of its Branches as Users move Online
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Mastercard Enters Buy now, Pay later Market with Latest Offering
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Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram are back Online after 6 Hours of Outage
Facebook Inc. suffered a devastating outage that shut out many of its 2.7 billion global users, idled some of the company’s employees and prompted a public apology from the chief technology officer. Users around the world were unable for hours Monday to access Facebook’s family of social-media apps, including the main social network, photo-sharing app...