Security News > 2020 > June > T-Mobile Outage Mistaken for Massive DDoS Attack on U.S.
Wireless carrier T-Mobile on Monday suffered a major outage in the United States that impacted service at other carriers as well, and it ended up being reported as a "Massive" distributed denial of service attack.
Other carriers were also affected by the incident, but reportedly blamed the experienced technical issues on the outage impacting T-Mobile's network.
According to Sievert, data services remained operational throughout the outage, but many users complained about their inability to access online services.
Matthew Prince, co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare points out that the claims of the outage being caused by a DDoS attack are unsubstantiated, and says that the cited sources are unreliable.
While DDoS attacks happen constantly, every day, there were no signs of a massive assault, based on the amount of traffic observed, and the fact that no major Internet service or platform reported anomalies, Prince notes.
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