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Federal agencies are investigating whether this morning’s AT&T outage was a cyberattack.
ABC News reports the FBI and Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and other federal agencies, are “urgently investigating” the nation-wide outage to determine if it really was a cyberattack, or a not-so-nefarious technical mishap.
Reuters also has notes from White House spokesperson John Kirby’s comments to reporters:
When asked if government communication was disrupted by AT&T outages, Kirby said: “There was some impact to Commerce (Department) but I don’t know the extent of that, I don’t think it was crippling.” He added that the FirstNet nationwide public safety network was hit but had been fully restored.
U.S. officials have been told that AT&T had no reason to think this was a cybersecurity incident, Kirby said.
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