Facebook is back up and running this morning after an hours-long outage led to chaos yesterday.
So what happened? In a blog post, the social media giant said configuration changes to its routers led to a “disruption of network traffic” that had an impact on how its data centers communicate. The outage took down Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.
Additionally, the New York Times reported it led to Facebook employees having trouble accessing buildings because their employee badges were no longer working during the time period. It’s possible that could be one reason the problem persisted for so long – Facebook engineers left without the ability to physically access the necessary computer servers.
Facebook insists it has “no evidence that user data was compromised as a result of this downtime.”
