Facebook has admitted its own tinkering caused an hour-long outage today, breaking the social network and related services including Instagram and Tinder.
The social network, which has 1.3 billion members worldwide, was unavailable for about an hour between 6.10 a.m. and 7.10 a.m. GMT. The problem then rippled around other websites and apps that use your Facebook credentials to log you in. Mobile-focused photo-sharing site Instagram, which is owned by Facebook, was affected, as were chat app AIM and swipe-based dating app Tinder.Facebook says the outage "occurred after we introduced a change that affected our configuration systems."
Facebook categorically states that "This was not the result of a third party attack", in response to speculation that the service had been hacked. Notorious hacker group Lizard Squad, which has claimed to be involved in the Sony Pictures hack and attacks on PlayStation and Xbox services, earlier tweeted about today's outage.
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