PARIS: Hundreds of millions of people were unable to access Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp for more than six hours on Monday, underscoring the world’s reliance on platforms owned by the Silicon Valley giant.
But what actually caused the outage?
What does Facebook say happened?
In an apologetic blog post, Santosh Janardhan, Facebook’s vice president of infrastructure, said that “configuration changes on the backbone routers that coordinate network traffic between our data centres caused issues that interrupted this communication”.
Facebook explained Tuesday the outage was “caused not by malicious activity, but an error of our own making.”
Can you explain that in plain English?
Cyber experts think the problem boils down to something called…
