Facebook cites outage cause and says there is no evidence of data breach

Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp have been fully restored after a major outage.

Facebook’s team explained that the cause was a change in the configuration of backbone routers responsible for coordinating traffic between the company’s data centres.

The company said there is no evidence that user data was compromised as a result of the outage.

Earlier reports reported that personal information of more than 1.5 billion Facebook users was being sold on a hacker forum. However, later in the article it was clarified that the data were obtained through scraping and were not connected with a breach or the outage of the social network.

Users worldwide reported outages on the evening of October 4.

With their outages, traffic to other platforms surged, causing issues for them as well — Telegram confirmed that the messenger ran slightly slower due to the influx of WhatsApp users.

The outage also affected finances — Facebook shares fell by 4.89%, and Mark Zuckerberg lost around $6 billion.

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