That report also included a caveat that a restaurant group criticized the study, noting it was based. Lizard Squad on Monday claimed it had defaced the Malaysia Airlines website and would release data from the airline. To bolster the case for a new lockdown, the city, as reported by Philly Voice, cited a study that found that 80 percent of Covid-19 cases last spring stemmed from crowded, indoor spaceswith restaurants deemed the riskiest location. The outage came a day ahead of Facebook reporting its quarterly earnings.
Facebook’s use of multiple data centers also meant an attack on one would have affected one region, while this outage was worldwide.Īlso, restoring service would be a matter of reversing the technical changes, which matched with the brevity of the outage, LaFuente said.įacebook has about 1.35 billion active users and Instagram has some 300 million. A denial-of-service attack would have made the sites unreachable rather than accessible with an error message displayed, he said. Guillermo Lafuente, security consultant at MWR InfoSecurity, said a technical fault was more plausible.
Lizard Squad, a group notorious for attention-seeking antics online, claimed responsibility on Twitter for the outages. The outage occurred at midday in Asia, and after Facebook was restored, some users reported that the site was loading slowly or not functioning fully. On its website for developers, Facebook said the “major outage” lasted one hour. 24, 2010, when it was down for about 2.5 hours. The temporary loss of service may be Facebook’s biggest outage since Sept. “This was not the result of a third party attack but instead occurred after we introduced a change that affected our configuration systems,” its statement said. Facebook-owned Instagram was also inaccessible.įacebook said the disruption was caused by a technical change and wasn’t a cyberattack. Users of PCs and Facebook’s mobile app reported they lost access in Asia, the United States, Australia and the U.K. SEOUL, South Korea > Facebook said the outage that made its social media sites inaccessible worldwide for about an hour Tuesday was self-inflicted.
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