Facebook, Tinder and Instagram all down EVERY commuter’s nightmare came true today, as Facebook, Instagram and the dating app Tinder all went down at the same time - during peak hour. Facebook was first noticed to be offline around 5:15pm AEST. Instagram, which is owned by Facebook, and Tinder, which relies on Facebook to log in and provide users’ profile information, were both down as well. Some of Facebook’s servers are located in New York, and initially, it was believed that the blizzard in that area was responsible for the outage. Since then, the Lizard Squad - a group responsible for hacking into the Malaysia Airlines website yesterday and taking down Sony’s PlayStation Network and Microsoft’s Xbox Live - has claimed responsiblity for the cyber attacks that took down Facebook’s networks. The company has since released a statement saying it believes its own engineers were to blame. “Earlier this evening many people had trouble accessing Facebook and Instagram,” a spokeswoman told the BBC. “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.” Other evidence appears to contradict Facebook’s version of events. To ensure you are viewing the latest information please visit: news.au/technology/online/facebook-tinder-and-instagram-all-down/story-fnjwnhzf-1227198626109
Posted on: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 10:13:35 +0000
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