AT&T west coast network outage INVOLVES AT&T
The outage affected AT&T's network in California, Nevada, and the wider west coast area.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Mobman EP 20 Details
“we just have a big network outage over there”
Incident
incident:at_t_west_coast_network_outage
Also: AT&T network outage
A major telephone-network outage that Mobman says resulted after he rewrote firmware on a central switching PBX.
A major telephone-network outage that Mobman says resulted after he rewrote firmware on a central switching PBX.
“we just have a big network outage over there. It’s been out for a couple hours.”
“Apparently it rewrote the firmware on it and bricked one of these central switching PBXs”
| Direction | Predicate | Other entity | Origin | EP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| outgoing | INVOLVES | AT&T | Explicit | 20 |
| outgoing | INVOLVES | PBX | Explicit | 20 |
| outgoing | INVOLVES | firmware rewriting | Explicit | 20 |
| outgoing | ATTRIBUTED_TO | Mobman | Explicit | 20 |
AT&T west coast network outage INVOLVES AT&T
The outage affected AT&T's network in California, Nevada, and the wider west coast area.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Mobman EP 20 Details
“we just have a big network outage over there”
AT&T west coast network outage INVOLVES PBX
The outage involved a central switching PBX that Mobman says was bricked.
Explicit Confidence 96% · Mobman EP 20 Details
“one of these central switching PBXs which happened to run like, the whole west coast telephone systems”
AT&T west coast network outage INVOLVES firmware rewriting
Mobman says the commands rewrote the firmware and caused the PBX to become unusable.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Mobman EP 20 Details
“Apparently it rewrote the firmware on it and bricked one of these central switching PBXs”
AT&T west coast network outage ATTRIBUTED_TO Mobman
Mobman admits that his commands caused the outage, although the account is his own recollection.
Explicit Confidence 90% · Mobman EP 20 Details
“I’ll tell you why, if you fix my phone bill”
“I bragged to them; I sit there and I tell them what I did”