Facebook blames faulty configuration change made to routers for nearly 6-hour global outage

Facebook has blamed the faulty configuration changes made to its routers for the 6-hour global outage on Monday.

Facebook on late Monday blamed the "faulty configuration changes" made to its routers that coordinate network traffic between its data centers for the major outage for nearly 6 hours across its platforms.

"Our engineering teams have learned that configuration changes on the backbone routers that coordinate network traffic between our data centers caused issues that interrupted this communication. This disruption to network traffic had a cascading effect on the way our data centers communicate, bringing our services to a halt," Facebook said in a blog post.