Yesterday, Facebook excluded the possibility of the “blackout” worldwide of its services on Monday, for almost six hours, was due to a computer attack and attributed it to a technical error caused by the company itself.
According to a post from Santosh janardhan, vice president of infrastructure at the social network Facebook, in a company blog, the services were not inactive due to malicious activity, but because “an error caused by ourselves", said.
The “blackout” of Facebook and its Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger platforms began around 16:30 in Angola, where millions of people across the planet were left without service.
Hours after this fateful accident, the social network's administrator and co-founder, Mark Zuckerberg, publicly apologized.
To inform you that Facebook in recent years has made efforts to protect its systems from possible external attacks, Santosh said.
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"I believe that if the price to pay for greater day-to-day system security is slower service recovery, it's worth it."
On the other hand, the breakdown of Facebook and other applications led to Telegram, an instant messaging service (such as WhatsApp) to receive more than 70 million new members, said today the founder of the network, the Russian Pavel Dourov.
The number of 70 million, in just one day, led the responsible to say that it was “a record increase in the number of adhesions” and that he was proud of the team that knew how to deal with this unprecedented growth.
Telegram surpassed 500 million active users. 25 million new users joined in the last 72 hours: 38% came from Asia, 27% from Europe, 21% from Latin America and 8% from MENA. https://t.co/1LptHZb9PQ
- Telegram Messenger (@telegram) January 12, 2021
On Monday, the Telegram messaging service went from 56th to 5th place among the most downloaded free applications in the United States, according to the specialized company. SensorTower.
