Facebook said an outage Thursday in European countries including Denmark, France, Norway, and Italy was a DNS issue, and the social network was not the victim of hacking by Anonymous.
According to VentureBeat, Twitter user @AnonymousOwn3r, who was responsible for hacking domain-registration service GoDaddy in September, claimed responsibility for the social network’s outage, as well, in tweets including the two posted below.
However, Facebook denied the hacker’s claims, saying in an email to VentureBeat:
There has not been a hack of Facebook.
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