Facebook Says Massive Outage Caused By Backend Changes
Facebook has released an official apology concerning Monday’s extended outage, citing changes to the configuration as the main reason Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp were down so long. On Monday, Facebook and several other related sites experienced a prolonged outage, lasting roughly six to seven hours. Following hundreds of thousands of reports worldwide, Facebook addressed the issue Monday afternoon, noting that changes made to the backend of its systems were the primary source of the outage....