40 minutes without a social network: Disabling Facebook and Instagram stunned users around the world

Around 6 a.m. GMT, social networks Facebook and Instagram stopped working, leaving hundreds of millions of users around the world at a loss. In a short 40 minutes, Twitter was flooded with comic messages about the approaching “end of the world” and more serious statements about possible hacking of networks.

The hacker organization Lizard Squad has already claimed responsibility for the hack that led to the shutdown of services. However, Mark Zuckerberg said on his page that hackers had nothing to do with it, and that the problem was related to “changes that affected the operation of our configuration systems.”

Daily Mail reports that the disconnection also affected Tinder, AOL Instant Messenger and Hipchat mobile apps.

Officially, the cause of the problem has not yet been reported. You can certainly say that this is not related to the snowstorms that have covered New York, since Facebook’s computing power is in California, recalls AmericaRu.com