Instagram froze for about an hour but it’s back up now...

It's not news anymore that

Instagram just got a new CEO this week after the fairly controversial exit of its founding duo and it is under fire for a major security issue. The last thing it needed is an outage but that’s exactly what happened today.

Between the hours of midnight and 1am at Facebook HQ, issues preventing the service from working on both the web and its apps, according to Down Detector. 

Facebook acknowledged the issue with a statement just before the service came back online:

“We’re aware that some users are having trouble accessing their Instagram accounts. We’re working to resolve the issue as quickly as possible,”

With over one billion users worldwide, even just an hour is a pretty huge incident for the service.

You’d be forgiven for being worried. Facebook just suffered a huge hack which impacted at least 50 million accounts although, so far, the company has said it didn’t spread to Instagram, WhatsApp or services that use the Facebook login system.