Verizon’s massive outage knocked out 5G and LTE service for hundreds of thousands, stopping calls, texts, iMessage, and mobile data. Was it a cyberattack caused by foreign hackers?
The evidence points to a software failure, especially since Verizon MVNOs stayed online. That doesn't rule out a hack, but with no hacker claims and no signs of AI-driven attacks, it's probably just a bad software mistake. The real lesson from the Verizon outage: cellular networks fail, and redundancy matters.
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