{"id":50655,"date":"2021-10-05T10:07:41","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T07:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=50655"},"modified":"2025-09-02T19:24:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T16:24:54","slug":"facebook-cites-outage-cause-and-says-there-is-no-evidence-of-data-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/facebook-cites-outage-cause-and-says-there-is-no-evidence-of-data-breach\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook cites outage cause and says there is no evidence of data breach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp have been fully restored after a major outage.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook&#8217;s team <a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.fb.com\/2021\/10\/04\/networking-traffic\/outage\/\">explained<\/a> that the cause was a change in the configuration of backbone routers responsible for coordinating traffic between the company&#8217;s data centres.<\/p>\n<p>The company said there is no evidence that user data was compromised as a result of the outage.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier reports <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privacyaffairs.com\/facebook-data-sold-on-hacker-forum\/\">reported<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p>Users worldwide reported outages on the evening of October 4.<\/p>\n<p>With their outages, traffic to other platforms surged, causing issues for them as well \u2014 Telegram confirmed that the messenger ran slightly slower due to the influx of WhatsApp users.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A little slow \u2014 but still holding.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Telegram Messenger (@telegram) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/telegram\/status\/1445066814380285961?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 4, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The outage also affected finances \u2014 Facebook shares fell by 4.89%, and Mark Zuckerberg lost around $6 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp have been fully restored after a major outage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1301,611,1433,1678],"class_list":["post-50655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-blockchain-vulnerabilities","tag-facebook","tag-instagram","tag-whatsapp"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"14","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50657,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50655\/revisions\/50657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}