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6 February 2015

Social Media Denies Cyber-Attacks

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Both the website and mobile versions of social media giants Facebook and Instagram were temporarily brought down this week.
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Both the website and mobile versions of social media giants Facebook and Instagram were temporarily brought down this week. Although Lizard Squad claimed responsibility for the attacks via Twitter, a spokesperson for Facebook, which owns Instagram, denied that the sites were hacked. They blamed a technical hitch after they "introduced a change that affected our configuration systems".

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