The hacking group Lizard Squad had claimed the responsibility for the Facebook and Instagram services being temporarily unavailable for around 40 minutes.
Both of these social networking sites were unavailable in many parts of USA, UK, Asia, and Australia and was inaccessible from personal computer and Facebook’s mobile app.
Lizard Squad has claimed the responsibility for hindering the services by a tweet, posting that it had affected many other applications including matchmaking app Tinder, AIM and Hip-chat. The message was twitted with #offline and #LizardSquad.
But Facebook denied that site didn’t faced any of the cyber-attacks and the unavailability of service occurred after we introduced a change that affected our configuration systems. Company has been avoiding any further elaborations about the recent outage.
Lizard Squad has previously claimed that they have been responsible for many more outages that affected Xbox and PlayStation Live Series during last year’s Christmas. They also claimed that they have hacked Malaysian Airlines website, changing the display message reading “404 – Plane not found”.
Lizard Squad occasionally makes tongue-in-cheek claims to support Islamic State, although there are no known links between the groups. The group also claimed that it was "going to dump some loot found on malaysiaairlines.com servers soon," and posted a link to a screenshot of what appeared to be a passenger flight booking from the airline's internal email system.
Facebook and Instagram’s outage news become viral on many news websites and set their rival social network Twitter alight, using #facebookdown to top trend on the site.
Access to the Facebook returned soon after around 40 minutes, but many users from Asia still complaining that Facebook has not been full functionalities like before the outage.
Earlier in Sept. 24, 2010 Facebook suffered an outage for about 2.5 hours, which was the biggest outage Facebook suffered since its establishment.
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