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Facebook Attributes Global Outage To "Faulty Configuration Change" The social media giant denied earlier rumors online that the Monday outage was caused by in-house sabotage and that hackers got access to user data, saying it had "no evidence that user data was compromised." The hours-long global outage impacted all of Facebook's apps and internal communications. In a blog post published late Monday, the company attributes the global outage to a "faulty configuration change" to its "backbone routers." This basically means a technical update ground traffic to a halt on the highway most important to the company's operations. Specifically, traffic was interrupted between Facebook's data centers, which are the physical buildings housing the company's servers and IT equipment. These data centers power everything Facebook does — from its apps like Instagram and WhatsApp to the company's internal communications. So the traffic interruption also cut off Facebook employees from sending messages or fixes internally. And it stopped them from physically accessing the impacted servers when their company badges — which can unlock doors at Facebook facilities — failed. The social media giant restored service by sending a team to reset its servers at a data center in Santa Clara, California, the New York Times reported, citing three people with knowledge of the matter. https://www.keneci.com/read-more-on-keneci-channels-newzbit#h.hl9xmzkve4fu