They re saying that their engineering teams learned configuration changes on the backbone that coordinate traffic between our data center caused issues that interrupted communication. basically, what they re saying there is that facebook s computers in their data centers, some form of setting change, configuration change stopped these computers from being able to communicate effectively with each other, and that is what caused the outage. so they re saying here it seems they re saying it s a glitch, not an attack. but still, they are being pretty slim on the details. one thing they did stress in this statement is that so far they have no evidence that any user data was exposed. but you re right, don, the timing of this is very interesting, and it will of course the company will have to investigate it. it was interesting. i think one of the most interesting posts i saw
Teams learned that a configuration changes on the backbone routers that coordinate network traffic between our data centers caused issues that interrupted communication. basically what they re saying there is that facebook s computers in their data centers, some form of setting change, a configuration change stopped these computers from being able to communicate effectively with each other, and that is what caused the outage. so they re saying here, it seems, it s a glitch, not an attack. but still they are being pretty slim on the details. one thing they did stress in this statement is that so far they have no evidence that any user data was exposed. but you re right, don. i mean the timing of this is very interesting, and it will, of course the company will have to investigate. it was interesting. i think one of the most interesting posts i saw