Lizard Squad claims to have brought down both Facebook and Instagram

[steven36]

Both social network platforms Facebook and Instagram went down on Tuesday while Lizard Squad hacking team claims responsibility for an alleged DDoS attack.

A couple of the most popular social networks Facebook and Instagram went down for at least 40 minutes on Tuesday, the official motivation is a technical outage, but the popular hacking crew Lizard Squad claims to have attacked the giants. The incident impacted also the mobile applications of Facebook and Instagram, which were not reachable for the same time.

“Sorry, something went wrong. We’re working on it and we’ll get it fixed as soon as we can,” said a message on the Facebook site.

The company also published the following statement on the incident:

Facebook and Instagram experienced a major outage tonight from 22:10 until 23:10 PST. Our engineers identified the cause of the outage and recovered the site quickly. You should now see decreasing error rates while our systems stabilize. We don’t expect any other break in service. I’ll post another update within 30 mins. Thank you for your patience.”

Waiting for further information on the incident, experts speculate that the attack is in Lizard Squad style, the group demonstrated to have the capabilities to hit and run the giants, Sony and Microsoft know the power of the team.

This group is demonstrating the ability to hit with DDoS attacks practically every adversary. Despite the recent arrests the team is continuing to operate, recently the hackers hit the website of Malaysia Airlines, also revealing a disconcerting link with IS.

Obviously the news became viral, hundreds of millions of users have gone into panic, it is proof of the high number of threads and post appeared on the network.

The hashtag #facebookdown has recently appeared on Twitter. The hashtag already tops Worldwide Trends on Twitter. The websites of the Tinder matchmaking mobile app and Hipchat instant messaging are also down.” reported RT.com. “The hashtag #ThingsIDidWhenFacebookWasDown has also become popular on social media.”

#Facebook, #Instagram, #Tinder + others down apparently due to huge DDOS attack http://t.co/AHmIDiwx9B pic.twitter.com/A2FPwTK2jb

— RT (@RT_com) 27 Gennaio 2015

Despite there are no official news regarding the event, on the Internet is circulating the image of Norse – IPViking Live attack map that displays a DDoS attack against servers in the US.

The unique certainty is the media coverage of the incident. The total number of users belonging to the platforms involved far exceeds one billion. In September 2014, Facebook has about 1.35 billion monthly active subscribers while Instagram counts on more than 150 million monthly active users.

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[steven36]

More News: Facebook denies outage due to Lizard Squad hack

The Lizard Squad hackers’ group has claimed responsibility for Tuesday’s outage on Facebook and Instagram. Facebook officials, however, denied it was a hack attack, saying it occurred after they introduced a change affecting configuration systems.

“Facebook, Instagram, Tinder, AIM, Hipchat #offline #LizardSquad,” the group tweeted.

Facebook, Instagram, Tinder, AIM, Hipchat #offline#LizardSquad

— Lizard Squad (@LizardMafia) January 27, 2015

The networking sites were unavailable from 06:00 GMT for about 40-60 minutes.

The map was released on social media showing the alleged DDOS attack worldwide. The main targets are the US, Russia, Taiwan and the Netherlands. The origins of the hack are found in the US, China and the Netherlands.

#Facebook, #Instagram, #Tinder + others down apparently due to huge DDOS attack http://t.co/AHmIDiwx9B pic.twitter.com/A2FPwTK2jb

— RT (@RT_com) January 27, 2015

Lizard Squad – a group allegedly aligning itself with the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) - came under spotlight on Monday after the hackers claimed responsibility for the attack of website of Malaysia Airlines.

“More to come soon. Side note: We're still organizing the @MAS email dump, stay tuned for that,” the group tweeted recently, apparently meaning that they are not done with the Malaysia Airlines website.

Lizard Squad earlier claimed responsibility for hacking the Sony PlayStation Network and Microsoft's Xbox Live network in December.

Facebook issued a statement about the outage, saying that their engineers had “identified the cause of the outage and recovered the site quickly.”

“You should now see decreasing error rates while our systems stabilize. We don't expect any other break in service. I'll post another update within 30 mins. Thank you for your patience,” the statement said.

A Facebook spokesman, however, denied that the outage was caused by a hack.

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[Cerberus]

If it is true then FB has some great IT personal for they had it back up in 40 mins....that would be record if they did get attacked which I highly doubt.

[steven36]

If it is true then FB has some great IT personal for they had it back up in 40 mins....that would be record if they did get attacked which I highly doubt.

I use to hang around on some blogs that got DDOS all the time some of them closed now some not . Its according to how good your DDOS protection is a lot of sites use free CloudFlare and most the time if its a big one it will knock them off a few days . But Im sure Facebook has a better one than this. :)

And even If they were knocked off for a little while I dont think they would ever admit it , Because they have so much resources. Were not talking about some site that cant afford protection .

Just like last summer when this happen before it was in the news they were DDOS from China they denied that too

More info : http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/21/heres-video-of-the-cyber-attack-that-may-have-spurred-this-weeks-facebook-outage/