Fears Of Cyberattack Linger After AT&T And Number Of Other Services Face Widespread Outages

AT&T said on Thursday that it had fully restored service to its wireless network after a widespread outage temporarily cut off connections for users across the United States for many hours, the cause of which was still under investigation.

The following report is by The New York Times:

The outage, which affected people in cities including Atlanta, Los Angeles and New York, was first reported around 3:30 a.m. Eastern time, according to Downdetector.com, which tracks user reports of telecommunication and internet disruptions. At its peak, the site listed around 70,000 reports of disrupted service for the wireless carrier.

Multiple government agencies said they were looking into the incident, although the Biden administration told reporters that AT&T said there was no reason to think it was a cyberattack.

AUTHOR’S NOTE: However, mainstream media was very quick this morning to insinuate that it perhaps was a cyberattack. The FCC has said that they will be investigating the outage. Powerful solar flares were also reported at the same time of these outages…