Top Senator Issues Warning on Chinese Cyberattack Targeting Critical Infrastructure

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) warned on social media that the outage that impacted AT&T Thursday could be significantly smaller than what a Chinese cyberattack could do. For much of Thursday morning, tens of thousands of people on DownDetector and elsewhere complained their AT&T or Cricket service was out, while AT&T, which owns Cricket, confirmed the outage. As of Thursday afternoon, the company said that about 75 percent of its service was restored. Drawing a response from Mr. Rubio, the vice chairman of the powerful Senate Intelligence Committee noted that while he doesn’t know what caused the outage, “I do know it will be 100 times worse when China launches a cyber attack on America on the eve of a Taiwan invasion.”...