Recently as a lot of you might have experienced, Facebook had been facing connectivity issues that were evident in its apps. Facebook blamed a “server configuration change” for the massive outage. Even after resuming service, Facebook didn’t issue an explanation until 24 hours later.
“Yesterday, as a result of a server configuration change, many people had trouble accessing our apps and services,” a Facebook tweet said.
“We’ve now resolved the issues and our systems are recovering. We’re very sorry for the inconvenience and appreciate everyone’s patience.”
The outage was believed to be the worst ever for the internet giant that reaches an estimated 2.7 billion people with its core social network, Instagram and messaging applications.
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As with previous disruptions, #FacebookDown quickly became a popular hashtag on rival platform Twitter.
On Wednesday, Facebook rejected speculation that the problem may have been the result of a denial-of-service attack — a type of cyberattack that overloads the host of a service with superfluous requests.
This has not come at a worse time for Facebook with the recent resignation of Chief Product Officer Chris Cox who became the highest-ranking manager to depart. That’s not the only turmoil Facebook is currently in, with another recent resignation of WhatsApp Chief Chris Daniels. Facebook seem to be moving in a different direction than these people want it to. To add more on the problems, The New York Times reported late Wednesday that US prosecutors had launched a criminal investigation into the social network’s practice of sharing users’ data with companies without letting them know.
According to the report, a grand jury in New York has subpoenaed information from at least two major smartphone makers about such arrangements with Facebook.
The news comes with regulators, investigators and elected officials in the US and elsewhere in the world digging into the data sharing practices of Facebook.
The social network’s handling of user data has been a flashpoint for controversy since it admitted last year that Cambridge Analytica, a political consultancy which did work for Donald Trump’s 2016 electioncampaign, used an app that may have hijacked the private details of 87 million users.
“It has already been reported that there are ongoing federal investigations, including by the Department of Justice,” a spokesman told AFP.“As we’ve said before, we are cooperating with investigators and take those probes seriously. We’ve provided public testimony, answered questions and pledged that we will continue to do so.”
Well, you know what they say, the bigger the company, the bigger the problems. Let’s see how Facebook manages to get itself out of this mess.
