The week of tech outages and leaks

History will treat Monday and Tuesday as days the tech world would love to forget.  Monday was Black Monday for those who rely on Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. All of these Facebook-owned properties went down for around eight hours, leaving a lot of people confused and services such as Twitter booming with the extra traffic. This was a critical outage that even affected Facebook employees and their internal systems, making it impossible for many people at Facebook to use anything they needed to get their jobs done.  Facebook wrote a blog post about the outage on Monday night, informing us… [Continue Reading]