Hackers from online group Lizard Squad have claimed they shut down the two sites at around 6am GMT - but Mark Zuckerberg's social media empire says it was just a technical fault.
Both sites, which have a total of 1.5billion users, appeared with error messages in the United States, Europe and Asia for around an hour.The social media blackout also affected the dating mobile app Tinder, as well as AOL Instant Messenger and Hipchat.
Facebook, which also owns Instagram, has denied they were hacked and blamed the outage on 'a change that affected our configuration systems'.
'We're working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible.'
A spokesman later added: 'Earlier today 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 per cent for everyone.'
An Instagram spokesman posted on Twitter: 'We're aware of an outage affecting Instagram and are working on a fix. Thank you for your patience.'
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