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A major T-Mobile outage is preventing customers from logging into their accounts and using the company's mobile app. T-Mobile users trying to access their accounts receive an error warning that the mobile carrier's website has been "Unplugged."
Cloud storage provider Box is down in a 'critical' outage, preventing customers from accessing their files. The outage started at approximately 9 AM ET, with the company stating that it is a critical outage impacting logins, uploads, downloads, and API calls.
A law enforcement operation is rumored to be behind an outage affecting ALPHV ransomware gang's websites over the last 30 hours. BleepingComputer suspects that the ransomware gang may have suffered potential law enforcement action after their recent activities, which was also hinted at by others.
Capital Health hospitals and physician offices across New Jersey are experiencing IT outages after a cyberattack hit the non-profit organization's network earlier this week. Capital Health confirmed that both hospitals are currently accepting incoming patients, including emergency rooms and all other locations, under protocols established for system downtime.
American office supply retailer Staples took down some of its systems earlier this week after a cyberattack to contain the breach's impact and protect customer data.The disclosure comes after multiple Reddit reports posted online since Monday reported various Staples internal operation problems, including an inability to access Zendesk, VPN employee portals, print email, use phone lines, and more.
The British Library confirmed that a ransomware attack is behind a major outage that is still affecting services across several locations. Although the library confirmed this was caused by ransomware, it still has to link the attack to a specific operation and reveal what employee and/or user personal or financial information was accessed or stolen from its systems, if any.
The notorious Russian hackers known as Sandworm targeted an electrical substation in Ukraine last year, causing a brief power outage in October 2022. "The actor first used OT-level living-off-the-land techniques to likely trip the victim's substation circuit breakers, causing an unplanned power outage that coincided with mass missile strikes on critical infrastructure across Ukraine," the company said.
Russian state hackers have evolved their methods for breaching industrial control systems by adopting living-off-the-land techniques that enable reaching the final stage of the attack quicker and...
OpenAI has been addressing "Periodic outages" due to DDoS attacks targeting its API and ChatGPT services within the last 24 hours. While the company didn't immediately provide any details on the root cause of these incidents, OpenAI confirmed earlier today that they're linked to ongoing distributed denial-of-service attacks.
Update November 8, 11:05 EST: OpenAI says impacted services are back online. OpenAI's AI-powered ChatGPT large language model-based chatbot is down because of a major ongoing outage that also took down the company's Application Programming Interface.