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Lizard Squad claim they hacked Facebook. NOT true, says the website

Facebook and Instagram were down for about 40 minutes this morning.

Updated 10.25 am

FACEBOOK HAS DENIED that a 40 minute worldwide outage was caused by hackers.

Both Facebook and Instagram were down across web and mobile this morning in the biggest outage since September 2010.

Hacking collective Lizard Squad, who yesterday took down the Malaysia Airlines website, have claimed responsibility for the Facebook outage but this has been denied by the company.

“The downtime was caused by a technical issue we introduced. It was not connected to Lizard Squad, Snowmageddon, or any other external party,” Facebook said.

The hackers have also claimed that passenger information was stolen during yesterday’s attack on the Malaysia Airlines website and have threatened to release the information today.

The outage occurred as the northeastern United States was experiencing a snowstorm that has shut down major cities including New York.

Facebook has about 2 million users in Ireland and roughly 1.35 billion users worldwide.

The Facebook outage trended worldwide with Instagram taking to Twitter to acknowledge the problem but Facebook staying silent  during the disruption.

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    Nov 10th 2023, 2:32 PM

    Australia is ideal for refugees because of it’s small population density and a lot of the land isn’t used for anything.
    Ireland needs it’s land for farming.

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    Nov 10th 2023, 2:56 PM

    @: They’re no just taking our houses, now they’re taking our farm land also. Jesus wept

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    Nov 10th 2023, 3:06 PM

    @SYaxJ2Ts: We ran out of houses a long time ago. They’re going in tents on farmland now.

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    Nov 10th 2023, 3:12 PM

    @: Refugees were never accommodated in houses in the first place. What you mean is that hotel space is under pressure, so they’re temporarily being housed in tents. But you’re such a see you next Tuesday, that you’d even begrudge them that basic need.

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    Nov 10th 2023, 3:13 PM

    Maybe we could move towards estate and apartment living, and away from one off houses with their 1/2 acre plus gardens? Thus freeing up more farmland?

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    Nov 10th 2023, 3:27 PM

    @SYaxJ2Ts: Yes they ARE being given houses. It was explained to you ages ago. Look it up.

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    Nov 10th 2023, 3:35 PM

    @: you mean the pitiful amount of modular homes for Ukrainians that have hardly been delivered yet?

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    Nov 10th 2023, 4:36 PM

    @SYaxJ2Ts: 700 modular HOMES, 54 nursing HOMES for our elderly being repurposed for migrants, 12 nursing HOMES already full of migrants. Seems no-one cares about our elderly. Not to mention some of our student accommodation is full of migrants.

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    Nov 10th 2023, 4:42 PM

    @: And how many of those modular homes have been delivered? Less than 200. Nothing else you mentioned constitutes a house.l

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    Nov 10th 2023, 4:43 PM

    And they’re trying to take homeless hostels now.

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    Nov 10th 2023, 5:15 PM

    @SYaxJ2Ts: Ah sure once pedantic Kevin is happy for our old folks to be moved out of their nursing homes around the country like cattle only to be replaced with foreigners, that’s all that matters. Good man Kevin!

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    Nov 10th 2023, 6:57 PM

    Old folks are having to move from nursing homes (including my invalid uncle) NOT because of Ukrainians, it’s because the business is going bust, often due to the high cost/lack of available staff.
    I’m sure in some cases the buildings are subsequently re used.

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    Nov 10th 2023, 7:18 PM

    @: See PJ’s comment. The state/government are categorically not closing nursing homes to house refugees in the vacated building. You’re a nasty piece xenophobic of work

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    Nov 10th 2023, 2:49 PM

    Good investment opportunity for the Obamas and Oprah Winfrey.

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    Nov 10th 2023, 2:56 PM

    @Tommy Haze: There was a lot of cheap property acquired in Maui lately.

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    Nov 10th 2023, 2:30 PM

    Good for them. Acknowledging current reality while leaving some hope that things can be turned around.

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    Nov 10th 2023, 10:00 PM

    @Steven Schulz: It’s more virtue-signalling from the Australians than anything else. The main islands are in fact growing: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-19/fact-check-is-the-island-nation-tuvalu-growing/10627318

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    Nov 10th 2023, 2:36 PM

    There will be more of this happening while the Don’t Look Up crowd choose to not look up.

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    Nov 10th 2023, 2:44 PM

    @9QRixo8H: Why are properties on the beach still so expensive?

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    Nov 10th 2023, 2:46 PM

    @Dave Grant: Exactly!

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    Nov 10th 2023, 2:58 PM

    @Dave Grant: Why are you asking me? Perhaps captialism?

    Beachfront properties are still expensive so I guess our only home is not becoming uninhabitable? This is clear evidence, FACT.

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    Nov 10th 2023, 2:58 PM

    @Dave Grant: Wow, you’ve hit the nail on the head there

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    Nov 10th 2023, 3:03 PM

    @9QRixo8H: They seem to think that climate change is a hoax because people buy properties near the coast, it’s weird.

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    Nov 10th 2023, 3:14 PM

    @eoin fitzpatrick: I guess our only home is not burning so! He’s so right!

    On an article that says beachfront properties on an island have largely disappeared under the waves.

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    Nov 10th 2023, 6:30 PM

    @eoin fitzpatrick: well to be fair the banks wouldn’t give you a mortgage without having some kind of climate change insurance which guess what……it isn’t a thing. You think banks are gonna let you mortgage a house that’s in serious threat not being there in a few years?

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    Nov 10th 2023, 2:43 PM

    Proper order seeing as the the ozis export 40% of all the worlds coal burned per year.

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    Nov 10th 2023, 3:01 PM

    “New Zealand had floated the idea”
    Haha see what u did there

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    Nov 10th 2023, 7:41 PM

    Follow the money trail. The Pacific Nations are playing Australia off against China

    Give us money or we will go with China.

    China are building 100 new coal fired power stations a year – Australia provides them the coal

    Australia is closing their coal powered fired stations and losing grid power

    You couldn’t make it up in a Monty Python episode

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    Nov 10th 2023, 4:07 PM

    It’s time that the Journal started to edit out comments not relevant to the subject or issue under discussion. Then and only then will it return to it’s former glory!!

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    Nov 10th 2023, 4:42 PM

    @Ollie Fitzpatrick: You mean like yours?

    There would be no need for such comments if The Journal did not restrict people from commenting on articles where they clearly feel that need.

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    Nov 10th 2023, 4:52 PM

    @Ollie Fitzpatrick: I notice you only flag and report comments for being off topic when it concerns the illegal slaughter of Palestinian civilians. Strange that. Well you got your wish concerning my comment. I was suggesting we boycott Israeli goods until they start respecting international law and stop “murdering children” as Tom Conlon put it in his article earlier today. I imagine you’ll be reporting this now, even though it’s in an off topic thread you created

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