Friday, 17 July, 2026
Timewarp Turmoil: Neglected Software Bug Flings Telstra Network Back to 2006
By TechShots Studio
Telstra CEO Vicki Brady told a Senate inquiry that a massive nationwide outage affecting 45% of calls was triggered by a missed software update and an undocumented design change. During routine maintenance, a critical time-keeping server restarted and mistakenly reset its date to 2006. The chronological error rippled across the network, invalidating security certificates and causing widespread communication chaos.
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