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Category: All News Copyright AFP 2017-2021. All rights reserved. Social media posts claim a global outage that took Facebook offline for more than six hours on October 4 was the work of a Chinese teen hacker. The claim is false. Facebook said the crisis was caused by an internal error, not malicious activity. A photo of a boy shared in the reports shows a 12-year-old who spoke at a Beijing internet security conference in 2014 after hacking his school’s computer system. “13 Year-Old Sun Jisu Hacked Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram!” reads a Facebook post shared on October 6 on a page...
