AT&T Says Cause of Outage Wasn't a Cyber Attack

The cause of Thursday's AT&T network outage has been revealed. In a statement posted Thursday evening to the company's website and shared with CNET, the carrier said the issue was the result of software and not a cyber attack. "Based on our initial review, we believe that today's outage was caused by the application and execution of an incorrect process used as we were expanding our network, not a cyber attack," the statement says. "We are continuing our assessment of today's outage to ensure we keep delive ...