Cyber security expert Matthew Green said it was a minor incident or error from the data center that caused the disruption affecting millions of users.
Meta announced that the global outage to Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger was caused by a “technical issue,” although it did not provide details on the cause behind it.
Services under the management of Mark Zuckerberg were temporarily shut down for about two and a half hours on the evening of March 5 (Vietnam time), leaving hundreds of thousands of users unable to log into their accounts. their.
Dan Ives, managing director at Wedbush Securities in New York, told DailyMail.com that Mark Zuckerberg may have lost about $100 million in revenue due to the shutdown of these platforms around the world.
Mark Zuckerberg lost about 100 million USD in revenue after the global collapse of Facebook and Instagram. Photo: internet
With a large portion of Meta’s revenue coming from advertising on its platforms, this technical outage caused a major blow to the company’s earnings. The lack of transparency in explaining the cause has created a fog of mystery around the incident, leading to the development of many theories and speculation.
A reliable source from within Facebook has revealed to DailyMail.com that the company’s internal systems were experiencing problems at the time of the outage on the social media platforms. While it hasn’t been determined which specific internal tools are causing the problem, these systems are often seen as an important foundation for companies’ operations.
Small errors like entering the wrong code or command can lead to major problems, such as crashing Facebook, Instagram and Messenger. This incident happened during a seven-hour incident in 2021, which cost Zuckerberg about $7 billion.
The Facebook and Messenger issues appeared when users found themselves logged out of their accounts and unable to log back in, even with the right credentials.
The outage was believed to be a “cyberattack” on Super Tuesday, according to ESET security expert Jake Moore, although he noted that this doesn’t happen often.
Matthew Green, a cybersecurity expert, also pointed out that the incident could have been caused by a technical error outside of Meta’s control. Meanwhile, Kerri Lisenbigler from TheRevOpsTeam sees the incident as “annoying” but “not too serious”, emphasizing that such incidents can occur due to large amounts of traffic and data that large platforms must handle.
