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AT&T has shared the results of its initial investigation into the service outage that affected many of its customers on Thursday.

US telecom carrier AT&T suffered a massive outage that lasted for over 10 hours. Users were unable to make calls or send texts.

The outage knocked out cellphone service for thousands of its users across the U.S. starting early Thursday before it was restored.

AT&T blamed the incident on an error in coding, without elaborating. Outage tracker Downdetector noted that outages, which began at about 3:30 a.m. ET, peaked at around 73,000 reported incidents.

Pharmacies across the country are facing disruptions following a cyberattack on Change Healthcare — which is owned by Optum, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group. In a filing with the SEC, UnitedHealth stated that the unauthorized party that gained access to Change Healthcare's systems was a “suspected nation-state associated cyber security threat actor."

AT&T said the hourslong outage to its U.S. cellphone network Thursday appeared to be the result of a technical error, not a malicious attack.

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As of Friday afternoon, the company was still working to restore the systems impacted. It expected the disruption to last at least the remainder of the day.

Following a massive AT&T outage on Thursday, Feb. 22, many customers complained that they could not access the cellphone service. In the latest update, the company ruled out cyberattack as the reason.

President Joe Biden signed an executive order Wednesday to strengthen cybersecurity at U.S. ports. Roughly 80% of the cranes used to lift and haul cargo off shi