Singer Rihanna's Instagram.com account was temporarily suspended on Monday (05May14) after a technical issue disabled the page.

The Umbrella hitmaker came under fire last month (Apr14) after she shared risque pictures from her sexy spread in French men's magazine Lui, in which she was snapped exposing her bare breasts and nipple piercing, on Instagram.com.

She was subsequently forced to remove the saucy photographs because they violated the social media company's rules on nudity.

But Instagram bosses insist that had nothing to do with Monday's tech problems.

A statement from the company bosses reads: "This account was mistakenly caught in one of our automated systems and very briefly disabled. We apologize for any inconvenience."

The R&B star has 12 million followers on Instagram.