Kenya: Hackers Claim Disabling of Facebook, Instagram

A hacking group named "Lizard Squad" has claimed responsibility for an outage that affected several social media websites, including Facebook, Instagram and Tinder.

Facebook representatives have attributed their site's operational suspension to a change in configuration systems.

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