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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's lost nearly USD 7 billion in a few hours after Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram suffered a global outage on Monday, a report stated.
As per the report, Zuckerberg slipped to the 5th spot in the billionaires’ list as Facebook stocks declined due to the global outage. Mark Zuckerberg, who has a total wealth of USD 121.6 billion, has now fallen behind Bill Gates.
Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp now accessible post global outage
Facebook services returned online after the operations were disrupted by configuration changes on backbone routers, the company said.
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"Our engineering teams have learned that configuration changes on the backbone routers that coordinate network traffic between our data centers caused issues that interrupted this communication. This disruption to network traffic had a cascading effect on the way our data centers communicate, bringing our services to a halt," the engineers said in a statement on Facebook's website.
"Our services are now back online and we're actively working to fully return them to regular operations. We want to make clear at this time we believe the root cause of this outage was a faulty configuration change," the statement said.
Earlier, the tech giant's CEO Mark Zuckerberg stated that services are returning online on Tuesday and apologised for the disruption in the services of Facebook and its other applications including Whatsapp and Instagram.
"Sorry for the disruption today -- I know how much you rely on our services to stay connected with the people you care about. Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger are coming back online now," Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post.
-PTC News-
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