30 Comments » 
Productivity across the country has soared 100% in the past half hour. That’s because nobody can currently use Facebook. I actually have to do real work now! Facebook is performing some upgrades. My guess is that these are nothing spectacular just the addition of servers and such. It’s kind of ridiculous that in this day in age Facebook needs to take down their entire site in order to perform upgrades. Maybe Facebook is preparing to release a new platform which protects all users from STDs and cancer. That would be pretty revolutionary. Unfortunately, I doubt that this is the case. Honestly I doubt there is anything major taking place except from the fact that they have had to take down the servers. That’s definitely one downside of having your business built on someone else’s platform. When they decide to go down, your business goes down. For now, it’s time for me to go try out some work related activities like reading email and other things that I have been avoiding.
Update
Given that even the Facebook page that says they are getting an upgrade is loading slowly suggest that there may be another issue at hand. I read a blog post this morning stating that Facebook was being hacked. Anybody know anything about this? Sounds like a denial of service attack. Although maybe I’m reading into this too much and you would expect that they have protection against DOS attacks.
Update 2
According to another blog, Facebook was down at 1:50 AM PST this morning and the Facebook wikipedia entry read the following:
“IT WAS RECENTLY HACKED BY CHRIS DOHERTY ON TUESDAY 31ST JULY. MANY PEOPLE HAVE BEEN AFFECTED, ESPECIALLY THOSE IN THE UK. CHRIS DOHERTY PROCLAIMED, ‘NOW PEOPLE MAY SEE THAT I AM THE TRUE CREATOR!’”
Update 3 - 2:30 PM EST
The site is back up. Not sure if we’ll ever know what happened!
Final Update
Facebook released the following statement:
This morning, we temporarily took down the Facebook site to fix a bug we identified earlier today. This was not the result of a security breach. Specifically, the bug caused some third party proxy servers to cache otherwise inaccessible content. The result was that an isolated group of users could see some pages that were not intended for them. The site has now been restored and we apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.
I wonder if we'll ever know what really happened.
What about a pirate attack ?
get hacked….?
http://www.mdibb.co.uk/2007/07/31/did-facebook-...
haha…
a world without facebook…for a limited time at least…
scary
seems to be working again as of 2:30 pm EDT
I wonder if we’ll ever know what really happened.
What about a pirate attack ?
get hacked….?
http://www.mdibb.co.uk/2007/07/31/did-facebook-get-hacked-today/
haha…
a world without facebook…for a limited time at least…
scary
seems to be working again as of 2:30 pm EDT
My feeling is the Pirates/Ninjas application spilled over and caused this.
It was pretty serious. I am in the UK and I could see into other people in my workplace's inboxes and homepages and they could see into mine. I reported it to Facebook and received the following (somewhat unsatisfactory) response “Thanks for writing in about the messaging problem you encountered with Facebook. This issue should now be resolved. Let me know if you have any further questions”. More answers please Facebook, things like this destroy credibility.
I was having a weird facebook experience this morning and the thought of it being hacked did run through my mind! I stay in UK..
My feeling is the Pirates/Ninjas application spilled over and caused this.
It was pretty serious. I am in the UK and I could see into other people in my workplace’s inboxes and homepages and they could see into mine. I reported it to Facebook and received the following (somewhat unsatisfactory) response “Thanks for writing in about the messaging problem you encountered with Facebook. This issue should now be resolved. Let me know if you have any further questions”. More answers please Facebook, things like this destroy credibility.
I was having a weird facebook experience this morning and the thought of it being hacked did run through my mind! I stay in UK..
it's 9:51 EST and the “upgrading” message is back up
it’s 9:51 EST and the “upgrading” message is back up
This was a major security issue. I spoke with numerous people in the UK who were able to log on to Facebook over a period of hours yesterday and could see personally identifiable information belonging to other Facebook users. Facebook should be honest with its users and explain exactly how many people may have had their personal information disclosed and offer advice to people to help them understand the risks of uploading sensitive information to sites of this nature.
This was a major security issue. I spoke with numerous people in the UK who were able to log on to Facebook over a period of hours yesterday and could see personally identifiable information belonging to other Facebook users. Facebook should be honest with its users and explain exactly how many people may have had their personal information disclosed and offer advice to people to help them understand the risks of uploading sensitive information to sites of this nature.
[...] were rumours yesterday that the Facebook site was hacked. It also seems that the site was undergoing maintenance. It doesn’t really matter which took place because the end result is that people gained [...]
This is only bound to happen as more and more changes occur to facebook… I have always been worried about facebook privacy…and looks like it's not total paranoia…
It would be great if we can insert pictures on the opeing screen of the profile.like in HI 5
i am having trouble getting onto my face book page at mt druit computer kisok the intergrated home edition is stoping us from using it
Hey I need some help from someone who knows something about facebook, I started an account in May 2007 and I haven’t used it since, now when I use it, I can’t use that instant message thing, so I don’t think I got the ‘upgrade’, does anyone know what I’m talking about? HELP!!! it would be appreciated. Cheers!
every time i try to connect they say either password or name ? is wrong i have a print out of this and filled in my pass word all capitals and this sort of thing has been going on for a year now always a problem why i have even book marked my connection page when i finally did get through i keep resetting my pass word and then use the first one i got and only then does it come right this time im on a new computer so what now
facebook is a very good thing
facebook is very good, how to upgrade layout at facebook home