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Ryan Morrison

AT&T reveals cause of massive outage — says it was not a cyberattack

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A nationwide cellphone outage that affected hundreds of thousands of customers on Thursday was the result of an error not a cyberattack, AT&T has revealed. 

AT&T customers woke up to find they couldn’t make phone calls or access the internet and this continued through to early afternoon before the service was finally restored.

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