I’m going to go out on a limb here and say someone was trying to take out an internet node. Perhaps damaging packet info on the servers?
All of that is a the NSA already.
Hit send. It is captured.
Could be. 911 services went down in that area of TN though, and ATT handles the emergency services infrastructure and data so it’s possible that the target was emergency communications.
Why, I don’t know. Was this a demo? A threat? A warning?