• poVoq
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    03 years ago

    Based on some details and guesses it might have been sabotage by a disgruntled Facebook employee? At least it seems to be something that originated from their own network and the timing in relation to those wistleblower news is a bit curious.

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      13 years ago

      Well, looks more like some security snafu after all:

      Update, 6:16 p.m. ET: A trusted source who spoke with a person on the recovery effort at Facebook was told the outage was caused by a routine BGP update gone wrong. The source explained that the errant update blocked Facebook employees — the majority of whom are working remotely — from reverting the changes. Meanwhile, those with physical access to Facebook’s buildings couldn’t access Facebook’s internal tools because those were all tied to the company’s stranded domains.