Telstra outage: The night a network decided the year was 2006

A recent outage at Telstra, an Australian telecommunications company, caused disruptions to several services, including internet and voice calls. The issue was caused by a software bug that made the network think it was 2006, resulting in a failure to recognize modern internet protocols. The outage began at 10:30 PM AEDT on a Monday evening and lasted for several hours, affecting thousands of customers. The company was forced to implement a manual fix to resolve the issue.