EVERY social media addict's nightmare came true today, as Facebook, Instagram and the dating app Tinder all went down for over an hour at the same time - during peak hour.

Facebook was first noticed to be offline around 5:15pm AEST. Instagram, which is owned by Facebook, and Tinder, which relies on Facebook to log in and provide users’ profile information, were both down as well.

Some of Facebook’s servers are located in New York, and initially, it was believed that the blizzard in that area was responsible for it.

Since then, the Lizard Squad - a group responsible for hacking into the Malaysia Airlines website yesterday and taking down Sony’s PlayStation Network and Microsoft’s Xbox Live - has claimed responsiblity for the cyber attacks that took down Facebook’s networks.

The alleged attackers used a method known as a DDOS attack to take the networks down. This involves sending huge amounts of traffic, concentrated to a specific server, until the server can’t take it anymore and crashes. At this stage it appears no data was compromised.

More here: http://www.breakingnews234.com/2015/01/breaking-facebook-instagram-down.html

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