Maintenance error caused Facebook's 6-hour outage, company says

  • 📰 ChannelNewsAsia
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 24 sec. here
  • 2 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Quality Score:
  • News: 13%
  • Publisher: 66%

United States News News

United States United States Latest News,United States United States Headlines

:Routine maintenance on Facebook's network stitching together its data centers caused Monday's collapse of its global system for more than six hours, the company said on Tuesday.The outage was the largest that Downdetector, a web monitoring firm, said it had ever seen. It blocked access to apps for billions o

:Routine maintenance on Facebook's network stitching together its data centers caused Monday's collapse of its global system for more than six hours, the company said on Tuesday.

At a U.S. Senate hearing on Tuesday, a former employee turned whistleblower accused Facebook of putting profits before people's safety, which the company denies. While users lost access to one of the world's most popular messaging apps - as WhatsApp has more than 2 billion users - employees were also blocked from internal tools.

The company said it sent a team of engineers to the location of its data centers to try to debug and restart the systems.

 

Thank you for your comment. Your comment will be published after being reviewed.
Please try again later.
We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly. If you are interested in the news, you can read the full text here. Read more:

 /  🏆 6. in US

United States United States Latest News, United States United States Headlines