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.
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.
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.
Well, looks more like some security snafu after all: