Posted on 02/23/2024 11:00:57 AM PST by plain talk
A temporary network disruption that affected AT&T customers in the U.S. Thursday was caused by a software update, the company said.
AT&T told ABC News in a statement ABC News that the outage was not a cyberattack but caused by "the application and execution of an incorrect process used as we were expanding our network."
"We are continuing our assessment of today’s outage to ensure we keep delivering the service that our customers deserve," the statement continued.
The software update went wrong, according to preliminary information from two sources familiar with the situation.
Sources have told ABC News that there was nothing nefarious or malicious about the incident.
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
Yeah, the chicoms probably updated their software with a virus.
We went from ‘state actor’ to ‘software update’.
Yesterday (02/22/2024) Downdector.com charts for AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, and others, all showed the same significant chart event - a large bimp (Francais per Clouseau).
But AT&T had, in the same 24-hour period, and not shown on the chart . . . its own troubles as AT&T described.
Solar flare —> State actor —> Software update.
Software update problem
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I remember years ago (60’s, 70’s ?) an update to an ESS switch brought the northeast down. One line of code....
Also remember when the range I worked on went from a VAX cluster to microsoft. That was “entertaining”. Local IT support guy told me “Windows is job security”. I called him a lot - Boss’s computer, boss can fix it.
or the small carrier was re-selling AT&T’s network.
Maybe or maybe not but I saw a similar problem at AT&T years ago when they decided to save money by laying off a bunch of senior staff without properly training the new hires.
“Yeah, the chicoms probably updated their software with a virus.”
AT&T doesn’t use Chinese switches.
Occam’s razor. Software problems do occasionally occur so that’s what likely happened here.
Unfortunately in this case they updated the live network with bad code.
I’m wondering if the “software update” wasn’t a malicious auto-download from a Chinese weather balloon several months ago that was activated by uploading of a TikTok video by a cell of newly arrived “immigrants”.
Software Quality is actually a science that, if practiced; prevents this sort of calamity.
Imagine the cost savings of actually regressive testing an update before deployment
Not buying it.
“Imagine the cost savings of actually regressive testing an update before deployment”
These communications companies like AT&T do that and created those kinds of M&P’s long ago.
It’s hard to say what happened here as we don’t have the details. Perhaps an update that survived testing only to create havoc once it went live? Not sure.
Because they were contacting AT&T customers.
Thank you for posting that. I remember reading that in yesterday's thread.
So, it wasn’t a boogie man? Boring.
They DO use chinese employees.
What else would they be allowed to say by the lawyers? It was incompetence.
AT&T getting a jump start at the DEI hiring.
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