J
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.
Follow topics and authors from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates.
Loading comments
Getting the conversation ready...
