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The websites of popular social media networks Facebook and Instagram appeared to be down for at least 40 minutes on Tuesday due to a technical outage. Lizard Squad, a hacking group, is reportedly behind the attack.

The mobile versions of both sites were not available either.

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?Sorry, something went wrong. We?re working on it and we?ll get it fixed as soon as we can,? said a message on the Facebook site.

The hacker group, which on Monday attacked the website of Malaysia Airlines, claimed responsibility for the social media outage.

The hashtag #facebookdown has recently appeared on Twitter. The hashtag already tops Worldwide Trends on Twitter.

The websites of the Tinder matchmaking mobile app and Hipchat instant messaging are also down.

Less than an hour after the popular social media sites went down, the problem was fixed and the sites went back up, much to the relief of millions of daily users.

#FacebookisBack proclaimed the latest hashtag that was actively retweeted.

Facebook, launched on February 4, 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg, now has 864 million daily active users, according to information from Facebook newsroom, September 2014. It also has about 1.35 billion monthly active subscribers.

Instagram, an online photo-sharing, video-sharing and social networking service, was launched October 6, 2010, and since then it has garnered more than 150 million monthly active users.

Source: Agencies

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