Interestingly enough, this was initially blamed on the Legion of Doom hacker group: It was a frightening outage that rang alarm bells in more places than just

Interestingly enough, this was initially blamed on the Legion of Doom hacker group: It was a frightening outage that rang alarm bells in more places than just AT&T headquarters. Months earlier, the Secret Service had arrested a 16-year-old hacker nicknamed Fry Guy who had told them, under interrogation, that a hacker gang he was associated with had been planning to crash the system on a national holiday. That gang, the Legion of Doom, was suddenly on the law enforcement radar screen in a big way. But they weren’t alone. The Texas-centric group was in the midst of an online feud with a New York-based rival, the Masters of Deception. LOD and MOD, as they were known, were at each others throats and the battleground happened to run through the phone switches and computer systems of America. From the article: https://www.cybersecuritymastersdegree.org/legion-of-doom-vs-the-masters-of-deception/ https://www.cybersecuritymastersdegree.org/legion-of-doom-vs...