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Hacking group Lizard Squad – which recently claimed responsibility for a Christmas Day attack on PlayStation and Xbox Live services – said on Twitter that it was responsible for the problems.

Lizard Squad Claims to Take Down Facebook, Instagram (Update: No They…

By Gizmodo @Gizmodo

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• Wall Street Journal ‏@WSJ 29m29 minutes ago

  Facebook denies ‘Lizard Squad’ hacking claim, saying outage was due to configuration change http://on.wsj.com/1D2728Z  pic.twitter.com/BbpiaNfVVh
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But Facebook and Instagram, which both went down for around an hour before normal service resumed, quickly denied their services were hacked.

They blamed the outage on “a change that affected our configuration systems”.

http://news.sky.com/story/1415657/facebook-and-instagram-deny-hack-attack-claim

RT ‏@RT_com 52m52 minutes ago

UPDATE: #Facebook denies hackers brought it down #facebookdown http://on.rt.com/l8k7do 

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Channel NewsAsia @ChannelNewsAsia  ·  41m 41 minutes ago

#FacebookDown, #InstagramDown “not result of third party attack”: @Facebook http://cna.asia/18ntksX 

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Lizard Squad Claims to Take Down Facebook, Instagram (Update: No They Didn’t) http://bit.ly/1ypmLL8  #facebookdown

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Facebook And Instagram Deny Hack Attack Claim

The social network says millions of users were unable to log in due to “a change that affected our configuration systems”

Sky News ‏@SkyNews 2h2 hours ago

Hackers who attacked PlayStation and Xbox are claiming responsibility for #facebookdown http://trib.al/aN185rx 

Facebook and Instagram have denied hackers were behind problems that left millions of users shut out of their services.

Facebook users in the UK, US, Asia and Australia complained of being locked out of the world’s largest social network.

Instagram – owned by Facebook – told users via its Twitter account that it was aware of an outage and was working on a fix.

AIM, Tinder and Hipchat are also thought to have been affected.

http://news.sky.com/story/1415657/facebook-and-instagram-deny-hack-attack-claim

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• 9GAG ‏@9GAG 3h3 hours ago

  Meanwhile at Facebook HQ #facebookdown pic.twitter.com/gFhI32T4Qq

Sebastian Boss ‏@se7Bastian 2m2 minutes ago

@SouthPark #facebookdown

• Red Bull Jordan ‏@RedBullJo 3h3 hours ago

  Maybe we can help? #FacebookDown #GivesYouWings pic.twitter.com/Sm7m5W9miF

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  Sunit Jain ‏@EkAurBottleLa 4m4 minutes ago

  Facebook went down, here’s how @twitter reacted #FacebookDown #Facebook

  

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