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National security spokesman John Kirby said the AT&T cellular outage is being looked into.

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  • AT&T cell service went out for tens of thousands of Americans on Thursday.
  • The reason for the outage isn't clear — and now the FBI, the FCC, and Homeland Security are looking into it. 
  • But US officials were told there's no reason to suspect a cybersecurity incident yet. 

A sudden cellular outage left tens of thousands of AT&T customers without service on Thursday — and now the feds are looking into it.

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FBI and Homeland Security are looking into the AT&T cellular outage, White Hous…