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David Nield

AT&T reveals the reason for its massive outage – and it wasn’t a cyberattack

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We're still reeling from the scale and widespread impact of yesterday's huge AT&T outage, and information about what caused the breakdown in cell coverage is now coming to light. And it seems as though a good old-fashioned technical error was to blame.

"Based on our initial review, we believe that today's outage was caused by the application and execution of an incorrect process used as we were expanding our network, not a cyberattack," said AT&T in an update posted on its website.

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