A stray bullet cut through a Spectrum fiber line on Friday, knocking an undisclosed number of Texans offline.
ISP Spectrum told customers in the Dallas-Fort Worth area that services were down in a post on X, which judging from the comments from customers isn’t an unusual occurrence. Charter, which owns Spectrum, has confirmed that a bullet was responsible and sliced through a key data cable that serviced the area.
“The outage stemmed from a fiber optic cable that was damaged by a stray bullet,” a spokesperson told The Register on Wednesday. “Our teams worked quickly to make the necessary repairs and get customers back online. We apologize for the inconvenience.”…