Outages

New York Attorney General Letitia James announced Thursday that she was launching an investigation into the nationwide AT&T service outage that affected about three-quarters of its customers.   In a press release Thursday, James said her office will investigate the causes of and the company’s response to the outage and urged New Yorkers who were affected by it to file complaints with her office. “Americans rely on cell service providers for consistent and reliable service to help them with nearly every…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN (AP Business Writer) A number of Americans are dealing with cellular outages on AT&T, Cricket Wireless, Verizon, T-Mobile and other service providers, according to data from Downdetector. AT&T, who was the hardest hit, is actively working to restore service to all of its customers. AT&T had more than 58,000 outages around noon ET, in locations including Houston, Atlanta and Chicago. The outages, which began at approximately 3:30 a.m. ET, peaked at around 73,000 reported incidents. The…

U.S. health insurance giant UnitedHealth Group said Thursday in a filing with government regulators that its subsidiary Change Healthcare was compromised likely by government-backed hackers. In a filing Thursday, UHG blamed the ongoing cybersecurity incident affecting Change Healthcare on suspected nation state hackers but said it had no timeframe for when its systems would be back online. UHG did not attribute the cyberattack to a specific nation or government, or cite what evidence it had to support its claim. A…

If you’re having an issue making a phone call in the United States today, you’re not alone. AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile are all suffering nationwide outages this morning without any indication as to why and when they will be resolved.The popular website Downdetector, which tracks when services are down by getting input from the public, has seen a surge in reports starting around 4:00 AM EST. As of 10:11 AM EST, over 65,000 people reported an issue with AT&T service alone. For Verizon, reports started…

Over 70,000 AT&T customers across the United States reported cellular outages on Thursday morning, according to Downdetector. Thousands of AT&T customers reported that their phones displayed “SOS” in the status bar, indicating they had no service but could still make emergency calls. It’s currently unknown what the cause of the outage is.Video Chat - From Sci-Fi to Sci-Fact“We are aware of an outage currently impacting our Mobility users and are working to resolve it ASAP,” said AT&T in a banner on its…

Enabling Wi-Fi calling reportedly fixes the problem as long as you're connected to Wi-Fi, but many users (including myself) were greeted with a spinning wheel and an eventual error message when they tried to turn on this feature, leaving them disconnected still. The biggest concern is of course 911 emergency services. If you have text access, 10 states, including Arizona, Connecticut, Delaware, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Maine, New Hampshire, North Dakota, and South Dakota do allow for citizens to text 911 in an…

Unified payments interface (UPI), the popular interbank payment system run by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) faced outages on Tuesday evening.NPCI attributed the outages to “internal technical issues” in “few of the banks” as multiple users took to social media channels to flag concerns around UPI payments not going through.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteIndian School of BusinessISB Product ManagementVisitIIT DelhiIITD Certificate Programme in Data…

X outage: Many X (formerly Twitter) users who opened the app and website to check posts and catch up to the daily trends today morning were met with a rude awakening when they found empty timelines on their home feed. The realization set in quickly that the Elon Musk-owned social media platform had suffered yet another outage. This was the experience of thousands of users, and the situation is still ongoing. However, it was not the first time a social media platform has suffered an outage, with similar incidents making…

Apple's financial services, including Apple Pay, Apple Cash, Apple Card and Wallet, have been experiencing service disruptions for some users since 6:15AM this morning, the company reports. As of 10:04AM Eastern, those services still have outage notices on Apple's System Status page. As AppleInsider notes, it's unclear how widespread the issues are, but the company has experienced intermittent Apple Pay issues earlier this year.On a personal note, I was able to use Apple Pay without issue around 9AM to make a pick-up…

Many electric utilities are putting up lots of new power lines as they rely more on renewable energy and try to make grids more resilient in bad weather. But a Vermont utility is proposing a different approach: It wants to install batteries at most homes to make sure its customers never go without electricity. The company, Green Mountain Power, proposed buying batteries, burying power lines and strengthening overhead cables in a filing with state regulators on Monday. It said its plan would be cheaper than building a lot…