Facebook named the cause of the global failure

Global failure in the work of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp could have happened due to the deletion of DNS (Domain Name System) records. They tell you how to find social media pages on the Internet.

Reported by Reuters.

Failure situation

Security experts who monitor the outage on social media noted that a configuration error could have been the cause of the shutdown, which could have been the result of an internal error. At the same time, experts do not exclude the possibility of sabotage by providers.

Hacking probability

Experts admit the possibility of hacking social networks, but consider this option unlikely. They assume that services may have been subjected to a massive denial of service attack. According to experts, such an operation will require either coordination between powerful criminal groups, or a very innovative technique.

What Facebook is saying

The company named the reason for the global disruption in the work of social networks.

“A sincere apology to everyone affected by the outage of Facebook services right now. We are having network issues and the teams are working as quickly as possible to debug and restore as quickly as possible,” wrote in Twitter Facebook CTO Mike Schreepfer.

What is known about the failure

• Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp crashed on Monday evening, October 4. Because of this, programmer Mark Zuckerberg lost $ 6.6 billion and dropped in the Forbes list.
• Employees can’t get to the Facebook officeas their passes are blocked. Thus, they physically cannot solve the problem.
• Data Leaked by 1.5 Billion Facebook Users not related to failure… The data contains usernames, email addresses, phone numbers, location, gender, and user ID. The base was with them at the end of September.