Facebook WhatsApp Instagram Remained Closed For 6 Hours

Facebook WhatsApp, and Instagram remained closed for 6 hours, was it hacking or cyber-attack, know the full details here.

Social networking sites Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram remained closed for 6 hours on Monday night, causing a lot of trouble to users around the world.

However, it has now been fixed. In such a situation, users are able to use Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp again. However, their speed is reported to be below.

In such a situation, the question arises that what was the reason, due to which Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp were down for so long.

Actually, the reason for the downing of these three social media platforms was due to BGP or Border Gateway Protocol.

Hacking or cyber attack is not the reason.

Actually, it has been clarified by Facebook that the reason for Facebook being down is not hacking or cyber-attacks.

The company has clarified that the reason for the downing of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp is a misconfiguration change. The company made it clear that the data of the users is completely safe.

What is Border Gateway Protocol (BGP).

Internet is a network of many networks. BGP is a mechanism that works to connect these networks together. But if BGP doesn’t work, the Internet router won’t know what to do.

In this case, the internet will stop working. Routers are large enough to deliver network packets to the last source along with updating other routers.

If in any case the network was not told by Facebook what to do, then in this situation the Facebook service may be interrupted.

How does BGP work?

A BGP is a type of entity, which is responsible for creating and updating the map. It works in a way to lead sites like Google, Facebook, and Youtube.

But if there is a mistake in it, then the correct information does not reach the users, due to which the social networking site stops working.

How the BGP issue affects Facebook.

According to the report, the BGP update message updates a router to various changes. Last night, many routers were changed by Facebook.

At that time many DNS routers went offline, due to which Facebook was down. Note that the DNS unit is the domain name