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https://edition.cnn.com/2019/03/13/tech/facebook-instagram-down/index.html

Facebook turns to Twitter to explain outages

By Donie O'Sullivan, CNN Business

Updated 2031 GMT (0431 HKT) March 13, 2019

Washington DC (CNN Business)Facebook, the world's largest social network, relied on Twitter on Wednesday to explain that its apps were experiencing outages around the world.
Some users of Facebook (FB) and other platforms owned by the tech giant, including Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp, experienced problems accessing the services. Many people went on Twitter to vent their frustration.
The outages began Wednesday afternoon and appeared to affect people in multiple areas, including the US, Central and South America, and Europe, according to tweets and the outage-tracking site DownDetector.com.

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"We're aware that some people are currently having trouble accessing the Facebook family of apps. We're working to resolve the issue as soon as possible," Facebook tweeted.

Despite some early online rumors that the outages were the result of a distributed denial-of-service (DDos) attack — a type of hack in which attackers flood a company's network — Facebook said in another tweet that "the issue is not related to a DDoS attack."

 

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https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/13/facebook-instagram-and-messenger-are-down-for-some-users/

Facebook, Instagram and Messenger are down for many users
Jonathan Shieber@jshieber / 6 hours ago

At least one security firm thinks the culprit of the Facebook outage could be a border gateway protocol routing leak.
Routing internet traffic around the world relies on the border gateway protocol (BGP), which manages how internet traffic is routed the internet. BGP relies on trust between network operators to not send incorrect or malicious data. But mistakes happen, and malformed data can form a “route leak” that leads to confusion over where internet traffic should go, and can lead to massive outages.
In a BGP route leak, the routing announcements from an autonomous system that guides the information to its destination is inaccurate and is rejected by either receiver, the sender or an intermediary along the route that packet is supposed to travel.
That may be what happened to Facebook.
“At approximately 12:52PM EST on March 13th, 2019, it appears that an accidental BGP routing leak from a European ISP to a major transit ISP, which was then propagated onwards to some peers and/or downstreams of the transit ISP in question, resulted in perceptible disruption of access to some well-known Internet properties for a short interval,” explained Roland Dobbins, a NETSCOUT principal engineer in an email to TechCrunch.
At least one professor isn’t convinced that a BGP leak explains the outage. “It is possible that a route leak could have caused/contributed to the outage event Facebook and its affiliated applications faced today. When routes are ‘leaked’ erroneously they can have a large impact to the negative on functions and availability of services,” wrote Tulane University adjunct faculty member, Tom Thomas.
“However, BGP is a usually a static protocol, meaning that once it’s setup it rarely changes. More likely a cause of this nature would be due to a mistake in programmatic automation and various health checks that they perform to ensure optimal functionality for users. If I had to conjecture, I would suspect that the outage today was likely due to a flaw in the code that controls such functions on a high-level business wise. Consider that the impact was across several Facebook owned services therefore the likelihood of them trying to be efficient in their code and its centralization for many services is more likely the root cause,” Thomas wrote.
Facebook and its related family of apps have been down for most of Wednesday.
There’s not much more information to share at this point, but the web is freaking out (as is to be expected).
Facebook has confirmed the outage and we’ll update as we get more information.

The social media management tool Naytev also confirmed the outage. “Facebook is experiencing a large outage, impacting posting to Facebook and the ability to log into Naytev. We are actively monitoring the issue and we hope Facebook resolves it soon,” the company said in a message to customers seen by TechCrunch.
As the outage is persisting throughout the day, Facebook has taken to Twitter to respond to some of the claims that are floating around. The company earlier batted down a rumor that a DDoS attack was behind the outage.

 

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