Any info on AT&T Wireless Outage?

Thu Feb 29 20:54:36 UTC 2024

No $5 received here.. Just a text message saying, "It's AT&T. We apologize for Thursday's outage, which may have impacted you. As a valued customer, your connection matters and we are committed to doing better.” 

I had the thought the other day that maybe this was a hack and that they didn’t want to admit such.  I’m sure FirstNet being taken over by hackers isn’t exactly the message they want out there.  Regardless of what the actual cause was, their lack of communicating anything meaningful is saying something which boosts the chances that this was a hack in my mind.

Agreed on the human error thing, but maybe the human error was something the hackers did that they didn’t mean to.

> On Feb 29, 2024, at 2:55 PM, Javier J <javier at advancedmachines.us> wrote:
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> Where did you see this? Erik Prince was on the PBD podcast saying he has a 70% chance in his head it was China. I tend to learn towards human error from my experience in the IT biz.
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> - J
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> On Wed, Feb 28, 2024 at 10:58 AM <joel at joelesler.net <mailto:joel at joelesler.net>> wrote:
>> I read it as “someone pushed an ACL that wasn’t properly reviewed and it really screwed things up."
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>>> On Feb 27, 2024, at 21:41, Mark Seiden <mis at seiden.com <mailto:mis at seiden.com>> wrote:
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>>> aside from the official pablum that was released about an “incorrect process used”
>>> (which says exactly nothing) does anyone actually know anything accurate and 
>>> more specific about the root cause?
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>>> (and why it took 11 hours to recover?)
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>>>> On Feb 22, 2024, at 11:15 AM, John Councilman <jcouncilman at gmail.com <mailto:jcouncilman at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>>>> From what I've read, they lost their database of SIM cards.  I could be wrong of course.
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>>>> On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 2:02 PM Dorn Hetzel <dorn at hetzel.org <mailto:dorn at hetzel.org>> wrote:
>>>>> As widespread as it seemed to be, it feels like it would be quite a trick if it were a single piece of hardware.  Firmware load that ended badly, I wonder?
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>>>>> On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 1:51 PM Leato, Gary via NANOG <nanog at nanog.org <mailto:nanog at nanog.org>> wrote:
>>>>>> Do you have the ability to expand on this at all? Do you mean a hardware failure of some kind IE router, optitcs, etc?
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>>>>>> Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2024 8:17 AM
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>>>>>> Subject: Re: Any info on AT&T Wireless Outage?
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>>>>>> Word around the campfire is that it’s a Cisco issue.
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>>>>>> On Feb 22, 2024, at 8:03 AM, Robert DeVita <radevita at mejeticks.com <mailto:radevita at mejeticks.com>> wrote:
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>>>>>> Reports have it starting at 4:30 a.m.. SOS on all phones..
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