Security News > 2021 > October > Facebook Blames Outage on Faulty Router Configuration

As of Monday night, Facebook had crawled back from what may have been its longest blackout ever and apologized for the mass outage that left billions of users locked out of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger and Oculus VR for about six hours.

When it comes to gauging Facebook's worst blackout ever, accounts vary: CNBC reported that Monday's outage was the longest downtime that Facebook has experienced since 2008, when a bug knocked its site offline for about a day, affecting some 80 million users.

A one-hour blackout was deemed "Catastrophic" and called the "Worst outage ever." That 2019 outage was similarly tied to a server configuration change.

During the outage, Facebook wasn't advertising its presence, meaning that ISPs and other networks couldn't find Facebook's network.

Data Breach Conspiracy Theories Bubble Up. As Vice reported, conspiracy theories about the outage being related to a data breach managed to spread even without Facebook and all of its hoax-disseminating messaging apps.

One of the most popular theories about the outage concerned a supposed attack that led to 1.5 billion Facebook records being sold on the RaidForums criminal forum.

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