Posted 2/23/2024, 11:45:00 AM
AT&T Outage Leaves 250 Million Customers Without Service for Hours
- AT&T suffered a massive outage leaving people unable to make calls, including to 911
- The outage was caused by an incorrect process during network expansion, not a cyberattack
- The outage affected AT&T's entire network with over 250 million customers impacted
- By around 3pm ET, AT&T said it had restored its entire network
- Government agencies like the Department of Homeland Security are looking into the incident to understand what happened