Update: All services are back online after an outage that lasted over 5 hours. To the 3.5 billion users who depend on the apps, Facebook says “sorry.” The company states its engineering teams confirmed that the root cause of the outage was a “faulty configuration change.” It also claims no user data was compromised during the outage. In news that will surely be greeted warmly at Twitter HQ, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger have all gone down in a huge global outage. Tens of thousands of users have reported issues accessing the four Facebook-owned platforms, according to the DownDetector website.…

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