While DNS mishaps are common and easy to configure, this time it was much more serious. What is the DNS and how does a DNS issue cause outages? DNS-the internet’s phone book is what translates the hostname you type in the URL tab into their IP addresses-the location of where the site resides. Moreover, people could not use the ‘Login with Facebook’ feature due to this.
Additionally, people failed to post, view posts, and send messages. Soon people around the world could not log in or access their accounts. Read to know the real reason behind Facebook’s outage So, what happened?Īround 11:40 ET, Facebook’s Domain Name System (DNS) records became unreachable. The server outage stopped over 3.5 billion users from accessing social media platforms.
“They’re more susceptible to social engineering because they’re so desperate to communicate.” Tobac said during previous outages, some people have received emails promising to restore their social media account by clicking on a malicious link that can expose their personal data.Facebook on Monday stated that faulty configurations in its routers were the real cause of the almost six-hour-long outages. “They don’t know how to contact the people in their lives without it,” she said. So many people are reliant on Facebook, WhatsApp or Instagram as a primary mode of communication that losing access for so long can make them vulnerable to criminals taking advantage of the outage, said Rachel Tobac, a hacker and CEO of SocialProof Security. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s personal wealth fell by more than $US6.1 billion ($8.4 billion) in a few hours, knocking him below Bill Gates on the list of the world’s richest people after the outages, and also after a whistleblower came forward with internal documents that exposed the company’s awareness of harms caused by some of its products and decisions.Ī selloff sent the social-media giant’s stock plummeting nearly 5 per cent on Wall Street, adding to a drop of about 15 per cent since mid-September.
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