{"id":108713,"date":"2020-06-15T20:02:28","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T03:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/all-us-cell-operators-hit-with-largest-cyber-attack-in-history-sparking-outages-and-affecting-facebook-and-instagram"},"modified":"2020-06-15T20:02:28","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T03:02:28","slug":"all-us-cell-operators-hit-with-largest-cyber-attack-in-history-sparking-outages-and-affecting-facebook-and-instagram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/all-us-cell-operators-hit-with-largest-cyber-attack-in-history-sparking-outages-and-affecting-facebook-and-instagram","title":{"rendered":"All US cell operators hit with \u2018largest cyber attack in history\u2019 sparking outages and affecting Facebook and Instagram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/all-us-cell-operators-hit-with-largest-cyber-attack-in-history-sparking-outages-and-affecting-facebook-and-instagram2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>AMERICAN telecom customers experienced widespread cellphone outages during what was believed to be the largest cyberattack in US history.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of T-Mobile, Metro by T-Mobile, AT&amp;T, Verizon, and Sprint customers all reported outages in areas including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-sun.com\/where\/florida\/\">Florida<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-sun.com\/where\/georgia\/\">Georgia<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-sun.com\/where\/new-york\/\">New York<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-sun.com\/where\/california\/\">California<\/a> on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The disruptions were part of a large-scale distributed denial-of-service, or DDoS, attack meant to overwhelm an online service with multiple traffic sources to render it unusable, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/popculture.com\/trending\/news\/ddos-attack-major-united-states\/\">Pop Culture<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMERICAN telecom customers experienced widespread cellphone outages during what was believed to be the largest cyberattack in US history. Thousands of T-Mobile, Metro by T-Mobile, AT&amp;T, Verizon, and Sprint customers all reported outages in areas including Florida, Georgia, New York, and California on Monday afternoon. The disruptions were part of a large-scale distributed denial-of-service, or [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":518,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/518"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}