Facebook has said it was responsible for a fault that sent several high-profile services offline on Tuesday 27th. An outage led to users of services including Facebook and Instagram being unable to access their accounts. The fault affected users across the world.
The social media giant said it believed the issue was caused by its own engineers, denying that a hacking group had been responsible. A spokeswoman for Facebook said: “Earlier this evening many people had trouble accessing Facebook and Instagram…This was not the result of a third-party attack but instead occurred after we introduced a change that affected our configuration systems.”
The sites were down for around 40 minutes. The dating app Tinder, which relies on Facebook was hit by the issue. Hacking group Lizard Squad tweeted about the outages, leading to some suggesting they were responsible. Lizard Squad had been blamed for attacks on Sony and Microsoft’s gaming services at the end of 2014.
Facebook has also complied with a Turkish court order by demanding that it block access to a page that could be deemed as offensive to the Prophet Mohammed. The company is thought to have around 40 million users in Turkey.
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