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.
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Those shortcuts will always get you....
AT&T wasn’t the only one... Verizon, T-Mobile - around a dozen smaller carriers all had issues.
And, it wasn’t a solar flare (didn’t affect internet, same electric power sources, same satellites; and the bulk of the recent big flare centered over Africa - NOT the US).
Oops.
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Software updated by AI ? LOL
The news yesterday was that it was caused by a massive solar flare (which only affected AT&T).
Now it’s a software update within AT&T.
Seems a bit more likely.
I knew this was the type of answer that would be offered. Regardless of what the real cause was.
It works on my machine, sir.
DEI in action.
Because they were contacting AT&T customers.
GIGO
GARBAGE IN-—GARBAGE OUT
Oh yeah, sure! Coincidentally happened on the same day as a huge military exercise!
No slack cut. You’re supposed to have a tested rollback plan, and if everything fails, a disaster recovery plan.
“Sources have told ABC News that there was nothing nefarious or malicious about the incident.”
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Prolly incompetence.
H1B — you get what you pay for?
Absolutely right.
As they say, if you fail to plan you plan to fail.
I hate AT&T.
“It works on my machine, sir.”
Yeah. I live in Alabama and for whatever reason I never lost my AT&T service. So I’m grateful for that.
I am not sure the others really had any issues beyond the normal everyday individualized outages that happen everyday. The media used downdetector.com when the reports started and they saw tens of thousand outages for AT&T and a few hundred for the others and went with that reporting. Note that downdetector is crowdsourced and relies on individuals reporting outages so it is possible that people that were having issues with AT&T reported on the wrong company.
Don’t trust the media.
That’s probably closer to the truth than anything I’ve heard today
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