According to a statement issued by a Facebook spokesman to BBC, the outage that took down Facebook, Instagram and Tinder was caused by an internal error rather than an external attack. Lizard Squad, a hacker group had tweeted about Facebook’s downtown causing speculations that the group was behind the giant social network’s outage. However, as you can tell, that’s not true. In April last year, Facebook experienced a brief outage, although only Africa and certain parts of Europe were affected. Facebook also said that no user data was compromised as a result of today’s outage. Image: cyberkendra.com
