AT&T Blames Yesterday’s Outage On Software Update

Bloomberg News reports:

“Based on our initial review, we believe that the outage was caused by the application and execution of an incorrect process used as we were expanding our network, not a cyber attack,” an AT&T spokesman said in a statement.

AT&T said all wireless service was restored Thursday afternoon, capping a day of frustration that began in the early hours of the morning New York time. AT&T customers filed more than 1.5 million outage reports on service-tracking website Downdetector.

The federal government began investigating whether the network failure was caused by a cyberattack, according to two US officials familiar with the situation, who requested anonymity to discuss sensitive information.

Read the full article. Prominent cultists including Alex Jones and Donald Trump Jr. spent yesterday blaming the outage on China, the Deep State, George Soros, and other right wing boogeymen.

A temporary network disruption that affected AT&T customers in the U.S. on Thursday was caused by a software update, the company said in a statement. https://t.co/F6T5h2qaon

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