We Were Not Hacked, Zuckerberg Says After Facebook & InstagramGot Shut Down For One Hour

Social media sites Facebook and Instagram were momentarily unavailable worldwide Tuesday
morning due to technical problems experienced by the two companies.
Facebook posted on their blog forum that the sites were down for the better part of an hour reportedly going offline for 53 minutes.

Well a hacking group named "Lizard Squad" has claimed responsibility for an outage that affected several social media websites, including Facebook, Instagram and Tinder.

The sites were affected across desktop, mobile and tablet platforms with users taking to other social networks to decry the downtime.
Facebook which bought out Instagram in 2012 said it is will restore the sites in the shortest time
possible.

"Sorry, something went wrong. We're working on it and we'll get it fixed as soon as we can,"
Facebook said on the blog section of its website. Facebook with its 1.3 billion users has previously had similar downtime going offline on June 19, 2014 for 20 minutes.

But Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook, which also owns Instagram denied they were ever hacked and blamed the outage on 'a change that affected our configuration systems'.