"AT&T Says the Outage to Its US Cellphone Network Was Not Caused by a Cyberattack"
AT&T recently announced Thursday's hourslong outage to its U.S. cellphone network was due to a technical error, not a malicious attack. The outage knocked out cellphone service for thousands of its users across the U.S. starting early Thursday before it was restored. AT&T blamed the incident on an error in coding without elaborating. National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said the Federal Communications Commission contacted AT&T about the outage, and the Department of Homeland Security and FBI were also looking into it.
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