World’s
largest social media network and its Instagram photo sharing site was down
across the globe for up to an hour on Tuesday. Facebook was down around 11 AM
IST. Millions of users were unable to
access the social media site. On login page message facebook greeted with
the message “Sorry something went wrong. We are working on it”. Company said
later, it was due to internal fault not an outsider or hacker attack. They
quickly identify the problem soon and fix it within an hour and 100% back for
everyone.
Facebook
said that “This was not the result of third-party attack but instead occurred
after we introduced a change that affected our configuration systems.
Lizard
Squad: An unknown hacker group had tweeted about the services breakdown and
tries to take credit of facebook and Instagram service breakdown. This hacker
group has hacked some high profile outages including Sony Play station and
Microsoft X’box live play station.
People kept
using Twitter and tweet about the facebook service failure. #facebookdown was
one of the most trending #Tag for the today twitter users.
As
precaution for Facebook users it is advised to change their password and review
their privacy settings.
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