Cnet.com informs that around 150.000 Facebook users have been unable to access their accounts for nearly a week and a half now, since October 3rd to be exact. Most see their profiles restored now but some data related to recent profile updates “may have been lost”. The outage has been caused by “a technical issue with a single database” and not due to a hack, so Facebook says. As a result profiles and login screens were replaced with a “down for maintenance” notice.
Less than 0.05 percent of Facebook’s users have been affected by the outage which means that at the most 150,000 of the 300 million active useraccounts were affected. Peanuts in percentages, but quite massive in total numbers. Also good to know, Facebook knows exactly whoch accounts have been affected and therefor will display the following message to all affected users:
You may not have been able to access your account over the last several days. We’re sorry for this inconvenience; an extended technical issue affected a small number of Facebook accounts, including yours. We have done our best to restore your account to its most recent state, but some data and settings may not be current. In order to be cautious, we defaulted some of your privacy settings to their most restrictive settings. You may wish to review your privacy settings and reset them.
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