Verizon has confirmed that the extreme service outage was not caused by a cybersecurity breach but was some kind of software problem

[erek]

“Following a countrywide service outage that resulted in millions of error reports, prompted the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to respond, and could have impacted emergency services for costumers across states, some online speculated that the scale of the event could have been caused by a breach of its systems.”

https://mashable.com/article/verizon-outage-cause-revealed

 

[xx0xx]

Initially it was thought too that it was more networks than Verizon but other companies quickly confirmed their networks were up and the reports of non-Verizon problems were probably people trying to reach someone that was on Verizon, which makes sense. While I get that it's totally a possibility, it sure is just odd when you see outages of this size happen, always puts in perspective just how much can be affected by one thing

 

[vegeta535]

The new guy Larry tripped over a ethernet cable.

 

[Dreamerbydesign]

It’s always a software problem lately…..