 | Facebook acknowledged on Tuesday afternoon the presence of an internal glitch that left some members with their accounts inaccessible. Facebook is currently experiencing a technical issue with one of their databases that is resulting in an extended period of maintenance for some users. |
The "down for maintenance" message is a notice that many of Facebook's 300-million-plus members have seen at one point or another, but in this instance it stuck around for as long as three days, leaving some affected users fearful their accounts had been deleted altogether. With Facebook acknowledging the problem as a database issue, that likely rules out a malicious activity like the one this summer that saw parts of the site temporarily crippled by a denial-of-service attack. |