Facebook and Instagram Went Offline / Down, Due to Denial-of-Service Attack Underway

Social Network Websites, Facebook and Instagram, Appeared to be Offline for Over an Hour Worldwide, What Seem to Have Caused the Outage ? REASON #1: A Website Called, “IPViking”, is a Monitoring Agent/s that Collect, Analyzes and Displays  Live Internet Traffic Data (a.k.a. Worldwide Cyber-Attacks), has Shown Large Amount of Online Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Attack Directed towards IP Addresses in the US, Possibly the Facebook and Instagram Servers in the US.

The Live Infograph Shows us that, the Attackers Seems Originated from Countries such as, China, Japan, Russia, United States and More. This Chart from DownDetector.com, Shows that, there has been over 10,000 Reports regarding Facebook is Offline.

REASON #2: As the Social Network Sites Slumps Down, an Online Group Called, the "Lizard Squad", Known to Have Caused Havoc in the Internet before, Claimed the Responsibility for the Outage of the 2 Giant Social Media Websites at around 1:10 A.M., ET. The Group also Took Credits for the Attacks that Took Down the Sony PLAYSTATION Network and Microsoft's XBox LIVE Network on December Last Year. "Lizard Squad" Tweeted: "Facebook, Instagram, Tinder, AIM, Hipchat £offline £LizardSquad", this Morning Following a Threat that Promises More to Come.