Claim

AT&T network outage of January 15, 1990 ASSOCIATED_WITH Legion of Doom

Police suspected the AT&T outage might have been caused by the Legion of Doom, but the episode says there was no evidence and the cause was uncertain.

Episode
EP 168 — LoD
Origin
Uncertain
Confidence
98% (extractor score, not a fact score)
Speaker
Jack Rhysider
Attributed source
police and Secret Service

Transcript evidence

“The police thought this must be the work of Legion of Doom”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 75588–75646

“But was there any evidence? Some initial reports suggested that there might have been a bug in the system.”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 75869–75975

Read the official transcript

Extraction provenance

Model gpt-5.6-luna · prompt 1.5.19 · schema 1.5.19 · 2026-09-13T08:51:22.420970+00:00

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