For just under an hour, just over an hour ago, what appeared to be a DDoS attack took place on the servers of multiple websites and services including Facebook, AIM, Hipchat, Instagram, MySpace and Tinder. Almost all of the services went down in succession in just a few minutes. The notorious group Lizard Squad posted on Twitter claiming responsibility for the act, tweeting as some of the services were being brought down by the attack. Facebook came out explaining the outage wasn't caused by evil 12-year olds but rather by their own internal configuration problems. Full statement as follows:

arlier this evening many people had trouble accessing Facebook and Instagram. This was not the result of a third party attack but instead occurred after we introduced a change that affected our configuration systems. We moved quickly to fix the problem, and both services are back to 100% for everyone.