FBI and Homeland Security are looking into the AT&T cellular outage, White House says
Source: Business Insider
A sudden cellular outage left tens of thousands of AT&T customers without service on Thursday — and now the feds are looking into it.
While AT&T restored all of its networks by 3 p.m. ET, White House spokesperson John Kirby said that the FBI and Department of Homeland Security are looking into the cellular outage.
"The bottom line is we don't have all the answers," Kirby told reporters on Thursday, according to Reuters.
Executive Assistant Director at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Eric Goldstein also told BI that the agency is aware of reports and working closely with AT&T to understand the cause of the outage and its impacts.
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