All T-Mobile systems seem to be down but carrier assures it hasn't been attacked

All T-Mobile systems seem to be down but carrier assures it hasn’t been attacked،

T-Mobile is experiencing what appears to be a widespread outage, with affected users flocking to the outage monitoring site. Fault detector and social media platforms Reddit and X to report problems.

Initially, it was suspected that the company might be the victim of another cyberattack, but it confirmed to BeepComputer and CNET that the outage was caused by an internal technical issue that is currently being worked on.

Customers can't log into their accounts and the company's app doesn't work either. Users who attempt to log in to their account receive a message stating that the website has been “disconnected.”

Oops, someone took the site down. The site is currently unavailable. We're working on it, but in the meantime, don't hesitate to call us with anything you need.”

The scale of the disruption appears vast, with user T MobileThe Apache Kafka event store received a warning that the service is routing the host address count.T Mobile.com could not be found.

PS Even assuming this is caused by an innocent error (which is common), this could still be exploited by attackers who were waiting for a disruption like this to occur. So whatever the explanation, monitor and exercise extra caution at this time if you're a T-Mobile user.

-zooko ⓩ (@zooko) January 11, 2024

Apparently, even T MobileFrontline teams are seeing login errors and other errors in many applications, hindering their ability to perform tasks like activating processes and making account changes.

If you contact retail and customer service representatives, they will likely tell you that they are experiencing “challenges” that have impacted their ability to process transactions.

We are experiencing system issues that are affecting our ability to process almost all transactions. »