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The nationwide ground stop was caused by a botched L3Harris network update, not a cyberattack
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New theory taking over X tonight: the FAA ground stop traces back to a network update from L3Harris, the contractor behind a lot of FAA telecom, and not hackers or the Microsoft outage. Officials have only said it was a telecommunications outage, there's no sign of a cyberattack, and the cause is under investigation. Is the update theory real or just the next thing people are gluing to it?
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source? 'under investigation' is not the same as confirmed.
fair, but it's way more plausible than 'Outlook took down radar'
It fits the timeline better than the cyber theory at least. Problem starts at one center in Chicago, then spreads to others. That's what a bad config push looks like, not an attacker picking targets. Still want the actual FAA writeup before I believe it.