The company in a late Monday blog post did not specify who executed the configuration change and whether it was planned. "We want to make clear at this time we believe the root cause of this outage was a faulty configuration change," Facebook said in the blog. The Facebook outage is the largest ever tracked by web monitoring group Downdetector. "Facebook basically locked its keys in its car," tweeted Jonathan Zittrain, director of Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. A similar outage at cloud company Akamai Technologies Inc took down multiple websites in July.

Source: Dhaka Tribune October 05, 2021 03:11 UTC