Social Media Crash: What will be the Consequences?

Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are already working. There is no information about compromised user data after nearly six hours of application shutdown. An hour ago, the hearing of the former Facebook employee began in the US Congress, who revealed inside information and accused Zuckerberg and the company of putting profit above security.

How did the disruption of people's social networks affect the consequences and what will be the consequences?

"Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger are back online. I'm sorry for the interruption today - I know how much you rely on our services to keep in touch with the people you care about."

This is the apology of Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, for the almost six-hour interruption of the social network and related applications. A technical problem that affected not only the services of the platform, but also the internal network - such as access passwords and emails of employees. The reason - a change in the settings of the routers on the main network of Facebook - this is the official explanation of the problem.

"DNS, or the domain name system, is something like your phone book. The system" translates "those domain names that are easy to remember and write to the IP addresses that computers use. That means you type." Facebook dot com "but you don't get the right phone number and that's why you can't get in there," said Candid West, a cybersecurity specialist.

Since the collapse of services affected about 3.5 billion people worldwide. And this is not just about personal communication. Many small businesses use only the services of FB to reach their customers, so the potential losses for them are not small.

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