AT&T caused outage that blocked 92 million calls, 25,000 attempts to reach 911.

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While the network change was rolled back within two hours, full service restoration “took at least 12 hours because AT&T Mobility’s device registration systems were overwhelmed with the high volume of requests for re-registration onto the network,” the FCC found.

ah, yes. the old “kick out the power plug then ddos yourself when you plug it back in” trick.

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25,000 attempts to reach 911

Out of that, I’m betting at least one person died as a direct result of not being able to get ahold of 911 in time

I’m sure AT&T will definitely be held accountable for any deaths!

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I work in a made up office job. I teach people change management. The news cycle has been great for examples.

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