US EditionAT&T says the outage to its US cellphone network was not caused by a cyberattack
- US mobile services experienced interruptions affecting AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, and other networks.
- 911 emergency service was down in some areas, prompting officials to advise alternative contact methods.
- Over 50,000 incidents were reported, with hotspots in the southern and eastern US.
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AT&T says massive cell outage caused by technical error, not cyberattack
AT&T said Thursday that a nationwide cellphone outage that affected more than 1.7 million customers and disrupted 911 services in several states was caused by an error made while it was expanding its network - not by a cyberattack.
A massive cell phone outage wasn't a cyberattack, AT&T says
AT&T issued a statement Thursday night to explain that the telecom’s widespread network outage earlier in the day wasn’t caused by a cyberattack. Countless conspiracy theories emerged online Thursday morning as people naturally wondered why they’d lost service.Read more...
The telecommunications company AT&T reported Thursday that a nationwide cell phone outage that affected more than 1.7 million customers and interrupted 911 services in several states was caused by an error made while expanding its network, not a cyberattack. Spokesman Jim Greer said AT&T would continue to evaluate the outage, which began to increase early Thursday and quickly grew to tens of thousands of reports on Downdetector. The fault peaked…
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