Mystery so far behind the most severe outage in Facebook’s history

cde.news desk 14 March 2019, 06:00 · 1 min read

epa07054950 (FILE) - A file picture dated 28 November 2013 shows a person using Facebook on his phone at a cafe in Hanoi, Vietnam (reissued on 28 September 2018). Facebook has announced on 28 September 2018 that a previously unreported attack on its network exposed the personal data of nearly 50 million users. According to the Social network, the breach was discovered earlier this week, adding that the vulnerability has been fixed and law enforcement has been notified. EPA-EFE/LUONG THAI LINH

Facebook suffered the most severe outage in its history, with key services rendered unusable for users globally for much of Wednesday.

Facebook’s main product, its two messaging apps and image-sharing site Instagram were all affected.

The last time Facebook had a disruption of this magnitude was in 2008, when the site had 150m users.

The cause of the interruption has not yet been made public, but Face book said the outages were not a result of a Distributed Denial of Service attack, known as DDoS – a type of cyber-attack that involves flooding a target service with extremely high volumes of traffic.

Via BBC

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