Hackers claim it is behind Facebook outages, other sites
Internet sites including Facebook, the world's largest social network, Instagram and other popular sites suffered temporary outages on Tuesday and a hacker group associated with other recent high-profile attacks claimed it caused the outages.
A Twitter account that purports to speak for hacker group "Lizard Squad" posted messages suggesting that it was behind an attack the temporarily blocked several major web sites.
Facebook, its photo-sharing site Instagram, and other popular social networking sites, were unavailable from around 0600 GMT for upward of an hour according to user reports and Web monitoring sites in countries across the Americas, Asia and Europe.
Facebook & Instagram services restored for many users http://t.co/uqRVYcbQNR
— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) January 27, 2015
Well that escalated quickly. Facebook and Instagram appear to be back online http://t.co/H5oYmNnAI1 #facebookdown pic.twitter.com/wDl8MhKpcr
— The Independent (@Independent) January 27, 2015
Hacker group Lizard Squad -@lizardmafia - claiming it's taken down Facebook, Instagram and other sites
— Rory Cellan-Jones (@BBCRoryCJ) January 27, 2015
Facebook suffers international outage as photo-sharing app Instagram also goes down pic.twitter.com/HgaWVCJpmm
— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) January 27, 2015
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