On Thursday morning an outage impacting Verizon and AT&T impacted thousands of people across the U.S. including Connecticut. While hard to report when you lack service, Downdetector.com is a good site for tracking this - unlike the carriers who are inclined to underreport outages. Here is the Downdector link to AT&T and Verizon.
According to the Greenwich Time, as of mid-afternoon Thursday, no reason had been given for the outages. Lee McKnight, an associate professor in the iSchool at Syracuse University, believes the most likely cause of the outage is a cloud misconfiguration, or human error.
“A possible but far less likely outcome is an intentional malicious hack of ATT’s network, but the diffuse pattern of outages across the country suggests something more fundamental,” McKnight said in an emailed statement.
Nothing to see here - move along...
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