An AT&T service outage that impacted a huge number of its customers across the U.S. on Thursday was not caused by a cyber attack, the company’s initial investigation has revealed. Instead, the cellular and internet outage was the fault of work that it was carrying out on its systems, AT&T said in a message posted … Read more
The cause of Thursday’s AT&T network outage has been revealed. In a statement posted Thursday evening to the company’s website and shared with CNET, the carrier said the issue was the result of software and not a cyber attack. “Based on our initial review, we believe that today’s outage was caused by the application and … Read more
Cellular towers are shown on February 22, 2024 in Redondo Beach, California.Photo: Eric Thayer/Getty Images (Getty Images) 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—theories … Read more
AT&T says it has fully recovered following a major outage on Thursday that disrupted connectivity for customers across the country. “We have restored wireless service to all our affected customers,” the company said in a statement Thursday afternoon. “We sincerely apologize to them. Keeping our customers connected remains our top priority, and we are taking … Read more
A worker climbs on a cellular communication tower in Oakland, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images A cellular outage early on Thursday hit thousands of AT&T users in the United States, disrupting calls and text messages as well as emergency services in major cities including San Francisco. About 58,000 incidents were reported around noon ET, … Read more
Happy Thursday morning! February is drawing to a close, the weather is getting a little bit warmer in parts of the country, and AT&T is experiencing a massive outage that’s affecting its cellular and internet services. It’s a bit of a mess. How many people are without service? When will service be restored? Here’s a … Read more
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A sign reportedly placed at Alamo Drafthouse’s Minnesota location informing patrons that no films will be shown that day. | Photo: 3NU (Reddit) “Sorry everyone! Sony is having issues with their projectors that is preventing us from being able to project movies at some of our theaters today.” That’s what theater chain Alamo Drafthouse posted … Read more
Photo: Chesnot (Getty Images) Over 90,000 users on X experienced an outage on Thursday morning, marking the platform’s most severe outage since Elon Musk’s takeover in October of 2022, according to Bloomberg. Data from Google Trends shows that many users rushed to Mark Zuckerberg’s Threads during the outage. Mr. Tweet Fumbles Super Bowl Tweet X … Read more
Social media platform, X, formerly known as Twitter, suffered from on outage globally for about an hour on Thursday. People using X, which is owned by Elon Musk, were not able to view their regular posts or their timelines, but were instead greeted with a message that said “Welcome to X!” Web outage reporting site own … Read more
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As if publishers and users didn’t have enough reasons to reconsider their connections to the platform formerly known as Twitter, all outgoing links from X stopped working Wednesday afternoon. A problem with the URL redirect that captures activity before sending users on their way sent people to a simple error page saying, “This page is … Read more