Facebook says 'no malicious activity behind' service outage

The company had not made clear whether the configuration change had been planned or whether someone interfered with its servers

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Facebook Inc said on Tuesday "there was no malicious activity behind" a faulty configuration change that knocked all of its services off the internet for hours a day earlier.

The company earlier had not made clear whether the configuration change had been planned or whether someone deliberately interfered with its servers.