Facebook/WhatsApp/Instagram hacked

[Expat]

Not sure if that was sarcasm or not (who can tell these days.) Of course, FB can wipe whatever data they want off their servers, but there are other sources of "truth" out there...

https://www.linkedin.com/in/franceshaugen/

sarcasm

 

[bwframe]

Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp Coming Back Online After Extensive Outage

Facebook's services started to return around 6:30 p.m. ET. It later blamed a 'faulty configuration change.'

www.pcmag.com

 

[Keith_Indy]

An update from that Krebs on Security article I posted above...

Update, 4:37 p.m. ET: Sheera Frenkel with The New York Times tweeted that Facebook employees told her they were having trouble accessing Facebook buildings because their employee badges no longer worked. That could be one reason this outage has persisted so long: Facebook engineers may be having trouble physically accessing the computer servers needed to upload new BGP records to the global Internet.

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.

And people here at work wonder why I think putting mission critical software on the cloud is short sighted...

Technical writeup for those interested...

https://blog.cloudflare.com/october-2021-facebook-outage/

 

[KLB]

That oh moment when you realize the change you just made remotely dropped your connection into the network.

 

[jsx1043]

Fartbook is back up