Hacker group claims responsibility for Facebook crash
Facebook faces biggest outage since 2010.
Hacker group Lizard Squad posted a tweet that suggests they were responsible for this morning’s social media crash on Facebook, Instagram and Tinder.
The group gained instant notoriety as a hacking collective with a Christmas Day Distributed Denial-of-Service attack on both Sony and Microsoft last year.
Facebook has about 1.25 billion users and Instagram has some 300 million.
Visitors to Facebook were greeted by the message “Sorry, something went wrong. We’re working on it and we’ll get it fixed as soon as we can. Go Back” or came across a “Cannot find server” message when it was offline.
News of the Facebook outage set rival social network Twitter alight.
As access to Facebook returned in Asia, some users on Twitter reported that the site was loading or responding slowly.
The temporary loss of service may be Facebook’s biggest outage since 24 September 2010, when it was down for more than two hours.
