There was no cyberattack involved in the global internet outage on June 8, but that hasn't stopped ... [+] the speculation Getty ImagesJune 8 was not just another day online. What caused the internet outage? I updated my story to reflect this, but neither that nor Fastly then making this confirmation public stopped the speculative cyberattack narrative. The hashtag #cyberattack started trending on Twitter and the emails from cybersecurity vendors offering me comment hypothesizing nefarious threat actor involvement continued. What will, I hope, is a debate on how reliant large swathes of the internet are on specific infrastructure and service providers.

Source: Forbes June 09, 2021 13:30 UTC