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Updated 10.25 am
TheJournal.ie / TwitterFacebook is down. As is Instagram. Across web and mobile. Only one thing for it. STAY IN BED! pic.twitter.com/EX0ytFcjmJ
— TheJournal.ie (@thejournal_ie) January 27, 2015
FACEBOOK HAS DENIED that a 40 minute worldwide outage was caused by hackers.
Both Facebook and Instagram were down across web and mobile this morning in the biggest outage since September 2010.
Hacking collective Lizard Squad, who yesterday took down the Malaysia Airlines website, have claimed responsibility for the Facebook outage but this has been denied by the company.
“The downtime was caused by a technical issue we introduced. It was not connected to Lizard Squad, Snowmageddon, or any other external party,” Facebook said.
The hackers have also claimed that passenger information was stolen during yesterday’s attack on the Malaysia Airlines website and have threatened to release the information today.
The outage occurred as the northeastern United States was experiencing a snowstorm that has shut down major cities including New York.
Facebook has about 2 million users in Ireland and roughly 1.35 billion users worldwide.
The Facebook outage trended worldwide with Instagram taking to Twitter to acknowledge the problem but Facebook staying silent during the disruption.
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Oh god! I need to know what people are having for breakfast and how tired they are!!!
Toast and knackered
Ash, is your preference for the picture of the cornflakes or a description? I’m a huge fan of the 500 wedding pics that nobody asked the couple of they wanted them broadcast to the world….how long before they can upload again Facebook???
I called my friend and got him to describe his breakfast over the phone while instagram was down.
People who are on Facebook, complaining about other peoples Facebook habits, make me laugh.
What if some of my friends are going abroad and I can’t see them having a pint at Dublin airport at half seven in the morning!?!
These are the problems we face in a modern society.
How can I have a sneaky tug over my ex girlfriends holiday pics from summer 2012 before I go to work now :(
Aw sad. You ok
I’ll try help you out Bill
(.)(.)
nothing but tears at dublin airport as holidays ruined as ‘ah sure there is no point going if ya can’t tell Facebook’ panic sets in. Dreams of a a perfect hour by hour photo update of the ‘amazing’ trip to bristol to see your sister is in ruins.
It’s back, my mate is having scrambled eggs on a croissant for breakfast with some shaved truffles. He lives in D4 :)
That meteor must have effected the satellite network. Or else it’s the blizzard in New York. Or else it’s the new Greek government they are going to cause a lot of problems. Or else it’s Islamic state. In fact I think it could be the delayed effect of the meteor’s gravitational pull on Kim kardashian ass that has finally broken something.
frank will have the answer
It’s 17
at Least MYSPACE is ok
how long before some idiot has a ‘i do not give Facebook permission….’ copy and paste job on the subject. this will be massive news, tragic stories about not being able to put up how cute are my kids photos, gym sessions in tatters as the ‘good session’ post is ruined, desperate women will have nowhere to cry for attention with their ‘some people just annoy me…’ posts. women will be beating down joe duffys door lamenting of 472 wedding photos waiting to be launched onto an await public that couldn’t acre less. its all too tragic….
PM hun..
I’d imagine it was one of those viral messages that finally brought it down. Tragic stuff.
Phew.. I can still get into my Bebo page.
SDL?? xoxoxo
Add me xoxbebostunnaz2k6
How will I know what my friends are having for breakfast!?!?
Please everyone remember to “keep calm and ‘Twitter’ and on” ;)
Is feeling – Happy
the Journal stands tall.
People should not forget how to use pen and paper, it may be on the way back.
Funny actually. Theres a man well knowm in our town who lives his life through facebook. Struggles to find anyone to meet for a pint but has about 600 ‘friends’ on facebook. He likes his own posts and pictures of his kids. He strategically likes his wife’s posts of their kids 24ish hours after she posts them so they’ll stay high on everyones feed.
Anyway, his birthday is today. I’d say hes reeling.
There’s a lot of sarcasm floating about on the Facebook outage but well deserved
Lizard Squad did NOT hack Facebook, it was me, getting revenge on my dopey facebook addict b!tch of a daughter-in-law for stealing my son away from me.
ISIS?
Just pointing out that Lizard Squad didn’t claim responsibility in their tweet – they were just tweeting that the services were down. Much in the same way that guys tweeted it too…
What lizard squad do is not hacking. To call them hackers is like calling someone who can cut a steak a surgeon.
Agreed. It’s just a denial of service attack. It’s breaking rather than breaking into a network.
But hack sounds sexier in the media so ya know they will go with that
So suspicious,,,and this happens during the time when the worst blizzard ever was to hit the east coast of america, no-one allowed out after 11pm last night and then there was feck all snow…and a social media blackout…what is the real story…can we blame Seth Rogan and James Franco now???
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