Social network “VKontakte” earned after many hours of failure – RBC

The social network “VKontakte” has resumed operation after a failure that lasted for several hours on Tuesday. This RBC reported by users of social networks. According to them, in the social network “VKontakte” again you can go as a mobile application and a computer.

Later, the press secretary of “VKontakte” George Lobushkin confirmed the normalization of most sections of the site.

Failure “VKontakte” became known around 17:00 MSK Tuesday. The announcement of this appeared in other social networks, in particular, on Twitter, where users have deduced hashtag # vkzhivi trends in Russia.

Social Network did not open any mobile application or from a computer.

For information about the failure in his Twitter Lobushkin confirmed. “VKontakte is now available worldwide. The causes are investigated. Repair crews are already in place and has started to work. # Vkzhivi “- he wrote.

Lobushkin explained that the failure was due to a cable break between data centers, adding that access to the site to be restored from a backup scheme.