Incident
incident:at_t_outage_of_1990
Also: AT&T phone outage, major outage at New York
Major AT&T telephone outage that disrupted millions of calls and triggered an investigation of hackers, but was later attributed to a software bug.
Major AT&T telephone outage that disrupted millions of calls and triggered an investigation of hackers, but was later attributed to a software bug.
“the big phone outage in AT&T that happened on MLK Day in 1999”
“One of their programmers put in the word ‘break’ in a wrong part of the code”
| Direction | Predicate | Other entity | Origin | EP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| outgoing | INVOLVES | Software bug | Explicit | 169 |
| outgoing | ATTRIBUTED_TO | Legion of Doom | Uncertain | 169 |
| outgoing | ATTRIBUTED_TO | Masters of Deception | Uncertain | 169 |
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.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 169 Details
“AT&T admitted very publicly that the outage was caused by a bug in their own software.”
“One of their programmers put in the word ‘break’ in a wrong part of the code”
AT&T outage of 1990 ATTRIBUTED_TO Legion of Doom
The Legion of Doom was an initial suspect in the AT&T outage, but the episode later says the outage was caused by AT&T's own software bug.
Uncertain Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 169 Details
“LoD was their initial suspect”
AT&T outage of 1990 ATTRIBUTED_TO Masters of Deception
The episode raises, but does not establish, the possibility that the Masters of Deception were involved in the AT&T outage; the later account attributes it to AT&T's software bug.
Uncertain Confidence 93% · Jack Rhysider EP 169 Details
“but maybe this new group MoD had something to do with it too, right?”