Facebook, Instagram goes down for 40 mins
In several nations, netizens reportedly faced troubles in accessing photo-sharing app Instagram.
Facebook has said it believed it was their engineers who had caused the trouble.
"Earlier this evening many people had trouble accessing Facebook and Instagram," a spokeswoman told the BBC.
"This was not the result of a third-party attack but instead occurred after we introduced a change that affected our configuration system,"she said.
"We moved quickly to fix the problem, and both services are back to 100% for everyone," she said.
The site remained inaccessible for nearly 40 minutes.
A hacker group called Lizard Squad has also claimed responsibility for the incident as it tweeted: "More to come soon. Side note: We're still organizing the @MAS email dump, stay tuned for that."
"Facebook, Instagram, Tinder, AIM, Hipchat #offline #LizardSquad," it said.
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