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T-Mobile, Verizon and AT&T hit with major outages, users say US under DDoS attack

An outage of cellphone services was reported by many on June 15 starting midday Eastern Time which led to many on Twitter to speculate the nation was under a DDoS attack
PUBLISHED JUN 15, 2020
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On June 15, many US regions faced issues accessing their social media sites as a result of T-Mobile, Verizon, Sprint and AT&T networks being down. A DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack was speculated, but there has been no confirmation on why three major networks were down at different regions at the same time. The reports of outages came in beginning at midday EST. 

The outage doesn't seem to be a complete shutdown. While a few customers of the network complained on Twitter that they were unable to access cell service despite having full bars, other customers from the same region tweeted out that they did not face any issues with their service. 

Except for T-Mobile, however, no other network confirmed facing any major issues. T-Mobile's president of technology, Neville Ray said on Twitter, "Our engineers are working to resolve a voice and data issue that has been affecting customers around the country. We’re sorry for the inconvenience and hope to have this fixed shortly."

Meanwhile, people on Twitter have been calling this widespread outage a #DDoSAttack on the US. One individual wrote, "people shouldn’t take a #DDoSAttack on the US lightly. Yes Twitter wasn’t affected (now if Amazon AWS servers were affected you wouldn’t be reading this tweet etc.) but the fact T-Mobile was affected on such a huge scale. No service for hours. That’s scary!" 

Some of them have also tweeted claims that this attack was made possible because of Trump. One person tweeted, "Whoever is behind this #DDoSAttack is demonstrating a terrifying capability. I fear Trump dissolved the national cybersecurity coordinator position because he wanted to hide Russian interference in the 2016 election. Now, we're vulnerable to all forms [of] technological attacks." Another wrote, "So every major mobile carrier and ISP are under attack from a massive DDoS. Do y’all all remember who got rid of the national cybersecurity coordinator position two years ago!?!?"

Another person on Twitter also opined that this is all a distraction from the pandemic and the social unrest within the country. "This is just distraction, much like the feds releasing evidence of UFOs last month (seriously, why now if it's not a distraction, as they've known for years). They're screwing with everyone's heads during a viral outbreak and social unrest regarding police brutality #DDoSAttack."

A US House Candidate, Ted Lieu also tweeted, "In light of this DDoS attack, your reminder that @realDonaldTrump eliminated the cybersecurity coordinator position at the NSC in 2018. And in 2019 at least a dozen high-level officials resigned from cybersecurity mission established under Obama."

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