Facebook: No 3rd Party Attack on Network or Instagram
Facebook said it suffered a self-inflicted outage lasting an hour Monday that made its site inaccessible to users worldwide.
The glitch reported in Asia, the United States, Australia and the U.K. affected access from PCs and Facebook’s mobile app. The social media giant’s Instagram service was also inaccessible.
In a statement to USA TODAY on Tuesday, Facebook said: “Earlier today many people had trouble accessing Facebook and Instagram. This was not the result of a third party attack but instead occurred after we introduced a change that affected our configuration systems. We moved quickly to fix the problem, and both services are back to 100% for everyone.”
However Lizard Squad, a group notorious for attention seeking antics online, claimed responsibility on Twitter for the outages.