Facebook says single error caused massive outage
(iMore iPhone)

`We want to make clear at this time we believe the root cause of this outage was a faulty configuration change.` What you need to know Facebook suffered a colossal outage yesterday. The company has now confirmed that a single configuration change caused the issue. The company says no data was compromised during the downtime. Facebook has confirmed that the huge outage it suffered on its platform yesterday was caused by a single configuration change. The company apologized to its users in a blog post explaining what happened stating: 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. 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....