Use of ため in the next sentence


I have my cellphone in japanese to immerse myself as much as I can in the
language, and when my facebook failed, this message popped up: 「問題が発出した **ため**
Facebookを終了しました。」 By context I can understand that "A problem happened with
Facebook so it needs to be terminated" but can't understand the 発出したため part. I
learned the ため as "for the sake of", but I don't think its trying to say "for
the sake of the issue", right?

Thank you before hand.

