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Facebook blames own engineers for outage, not a hacking group

ByErnie Padaon|

Facebook, Instagram and Tinder went down last night for a brief while. Facebook claims their own engineers caused the problem. 

The world went to a halt last night. At least the social media network went down.

Millions of users were unable to get onto their Facebook and Instagram accounts last night. Facebook is downplaying the claims of a hacking group being responsible for the outage and they are blaming it on their own engineers.

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“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 systems.

“We moved quickly to fix the problem, and both services are back to 100% for everyone.”

Tinder fans were not able to swipe right either during the outage. The dating app relies of Facebook to provide its service to everyone and they were not able to function.

As soon as the services had gone down, a hacker group named Lizard Squad had stuck their claim in on the attack.

The hacker group recently attacked the website of Malaysia Airlines. Facebook is saying that it was not them and it was their own issue.

While Facebook was laying in silence for those rough 40 minutes, people jumped onto Twitter and the hashtag #ThingsIDidWhenFacebookWasDown was born.

Check out what people had to say from the world of Twitter.

What did you do to survive #FACEDOWN2015?

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