The company has said the outage was not a result of a third party attack, as hacker group Lizard Squad claimed credit. Instead, it occurred after Facebook introduced a change that affected the configuration systems.
One significant repercussion is that the outage has affected apps that rely on Facebook for user log-in, such as Tinder.
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