Mobile Phone Service Disruption Across U.S.
February 22nd, 2024UPDATE: Pharmacies Nationwide Report Outages in Wake of Cyberattack
Via: Fox:
Pharmacies across the country are reporting delays to prescription orders due to a cyberattack against one of the nation’s largest health-care technology companies.
Change Healthcare, a company handling orders and patient payments throughout the U.S., first noticed the “cyber security issue” affecting its networks Wednesday morning on the East Coast.
“Change Healthcare is experiencing a network interruption related to a cyber security issue and our experts are working to address the matter. Once we became aware of the outside threat, in the interest of protecting our partners and patients, we took immediate action to disconnect our systems to prevent further impact,” Change Healthcare said in a statement.
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Via: The Verge:
AT&T’s cellular network began experiencing major service problems for customers across the United States early on Thursday morning. Wireless customers took to the carrier’s forums, Reddit, and elsewhere to report that they’d lost all voice and mobile data service — with some of those impacted unable to reach 911 emergency services.
FirstNet, the AT&T-powered communications network used by some first responders and health providers, also appears to be affected by the disruptions, but it’s unclear to what degree.
“We are aware of an outage currently impacting our mobility users and are working to resolve it ASAP,” the company wrote in a banner notification on its support forum. AT&T is encouraging customers to use Wi-Fi calling where possible while it works to restore full service.
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I don’t know if DHS will “cook something up” about this, but THE CLASSIC self-cluster-fork network outage was Canada’s Rogers Communications in 2016? 2017?….took out 1/3 of Canada’s entire population, around Toronto and into Norther US too! [They were using their own network to patch their own routers, and a router was misconfigured taking the network down with no subsequent way to sent the correct firmware once it was down, and then it started cascading!]
For the history books!
My land line works even when the electricity goes off, as it often does because the electric co. does minimal maintenance on their lines. An event like Keirs describes would kill it, though. Time for Starlink?