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Update about the October 4th outage

Oct 5, 2021Santosh Janardhan
Update about the October 4th outage
SummaryAI, from the source post

This post details a major outage caused by a faulty configuration change on backbone routers coordinating network traffic between data centers. The disruption cascaded, halting services. The root cause was identified as a configuration error, not malicious activity, and no user data was compromised. The company is working to understand the incident to improve infrastructure resilience.

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