Cyber-attack causes prolonged outage at US carrier Cellcom
Midwestern US mobile operator Cellcom experienced service outages lasting several days. Cellcom confirmed that a cyber-attack caused the prolonged outage, and the FBI was also involved in the case.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Cellcom
- Incident type
- Hacking & intrusion
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Service outage lasting several days
- Cause / method
- Cyber-attack
- Location
- United States
Timeline
- Cellcom confirmed that a cyber-attack caused the prolonged outage.
- Cellcom's chief executive confirmed the cyber-attack, and the FBI's involvement was reported.
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