Facebook, your uncle’s favourite supply for data on how 5G is making everybody communist, skilled a six-hour outage Monday. And it wasn’t simply Facebook—the corporate’s different main platforms, Instagram and WhatsApp, had been additionally down. We lastly obtained a press release from Facebook in a single day about what occurred, and the wrongdoer was some configuration modifications made internally on the corporate’s spine routers.

“To all the people and businesses around the world who depend on us, we are sorry for the inconvenience caused by today’s outage across our platforms. We’ve been working as hard as we can to restore access, and our systems are now back up and running,” Facebook mentioned in a press release printed on-line in a single day.

“The underlying cause of this outage also impacted many of the internal tools and systems we use in our day-to-day operations, complicating our attempts to quickly diagnose and resolve the problem,” the assertion continued.

Those inner instruments apparently included the flexibility to even entry the servers, in response to multiple reports.

“Our engineering teams have learned that configuration changes on the backbone routers that coordinate network traffic between our data centers caused issues that interrupted this communication. This disruption to network traffic had a cascading effect on the way our data centers communicate, bringing our services to a halt,” Facebook mentioned.

But Facebook assures us that the whole lot must be working usually once more, and it has no proof that any person data was taken. Early on within the outage there have been rumors of a state-sponsored assault on Facebook, which turned out to be false.

“Our services are now back online and we’re actively working to fully return them to regular operations. We want to make clear at this time we believe the root cause of this outage was a faulty configuration change. We also have no evidence that user data was compromised as a result of this downtime,” Facebook mentioned.

“People and businesses around the world rely on us everyday to stay connected. We understand the impact outages like these have on people’s lives, and our responsibility to keep people informed about disruptions to our services. We apologize to all those affected, and we’re working to understand more about what happened today so we can continue to make our infrastructure more resilient,” Facebook mentioned within the assertion.

Facebook is having a actually dangerous week. And it’s solely Tuesday. Who is aware of what the remainder of the week would possibly carry? Oh, proper. That whistleblower who smuggled tens of 1000’s of paperwork out of Facebook is testifying to the Senate at 10 a.m. at present.

Best of luck, Zuck. You’re going to want it.