Claim

AT&T outage of 1990 INVOLVES Software bug

The AT&T outage was caused by a bug in AT&T's own software, specifically a misplaced 'break' statement.

Episode
EP 169 — MoD
Origin
Explicit
Confidence
99% (extractor score, not a fact score)
Speaker
Jack Rhysider
Attributed source
—

Transcript evidence

“AT&T admitted very publicly that the outage was caused by a bug in their own software.”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 61398–61484

“One of their programmers put in the word ‘break’ in a wrong part of the code”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 61571–61647

Read the official transcript

Extraction provenance

Model gpt-5.6-luna · prompt 1.5.19 · schema 1.5.19 · 2026-09-13T08:53:06.962884+00:00

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