Facebook officially revealed the cause of the incident lasting 6 hours last night

Tram Ho

The fact that Facebook and a series of other applications in its social networking ecosystem crashed on a global scale last night in Vietnam time has led to many speculations about a cyber attack targeting this giant. However, according to Facebook’s recent official announcement, the cause of this incident is not so mysterious.

According to the company blog post, Facebook said the cause of the problem, which lasted more than 6 hours, was due to a configuration change in its routers – not due to a data theft attack at all. user.

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While this explanation doesn’t give many details, it seems that Facebook’s computers were unable to “converse” with each other as ” this disruption to network traffic has had a multi-layered effect on the way the centers operate.” data centers communicate, and halt our services .”

Before that, CEO Mark Zuckerberg also had to use the account of rival Twitter to announce that his platforms were back online. ” Sorry for the disruption yesterday – I know how much you depend on our services to connect with the people you care about . ”

The problem with Facebook started at about 10:40 pm Vietnam time last night and quickly spread to other services of the company. This is also Facebook’s worst incident since 2019 so far, when many of its services were inaccessible for more than 24 hours. Facebook employees also can’t access the company’s message board, and some told The Verge they are forced to use company-owned Outlook email accounts to communicate with each other.

The problem seems to start from an update of BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) routing – the protocol that helps computers find their way to each other on the internet – crashing. It wipes out the DNS navigation information Facebook needs so other networks can find their way to their services.

Coincidentally, the Facebook incident took place just a day before former employee Frances Haugen testified before the US Congress about her experiences while working at the company. A former Facebook product manager, Haugen provided a huge amount of Facebook internal documents to reporters at the Wall Street Journal, emphasizing the company’s “trade-off with our safety.” We take profits for them.”

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