By John Glenday

Facebook, Instagram and Tinder have all been temporarily disrupted with hacking group LizardSquad hinting at being the cause behind the short-term service outage.

No details have been revealed by Facebook at the time of writing about what caused the social media platforms offline, although the three all have connections to Facebook servers. Whatsapp, which is owned by Facebook, remained unaffected by events however.

Hacking collective Lizard Squad intimated that it may have had something to do with the downtime in the form of a cryptic tweet drawing attention to the outage but the precise cause remains unclear.

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Source: The Drum