Did hackers bring down Facebook and Instagram? Social media sites suffer worldwide outage for an hour after ‘cyber attack’
‘Hundreds of millions of people worldwide were unable to use Facebook and Instagram for around an hour today after an alleged cyber attack.
The online group Lizard Squad have claimed they hacked the two sites at around 6am GMT – but Mark Zuckerberg’s social media empire says it was just a technical fault.
Both sites, which have a total of 1.5billion users, appeared with error messages in the United States, Europe and Asia for around an hour.
Facebook, which also owns Instagram, has denied they were hacked and blamed the outage on ‘a change that affected our configuration systems’.’
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