Thursday, 5 March, 2026
"Faulty Configuration change" results in 6-hour Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram outage
By Basit Ansari
<p>Facebook has said that a "Faulty Configuration change" caused the nearly 6-hour outage, that prevented users from accessing Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram. While Facebook insiders claim that the outage was caused by an internal mistake in traffic routing, but security experts believe that sabotage by an insider could also be a cause. The outage was the largest ever recorded by web monitoring site "Downdetector".<br />
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