Resideo: Not Hacking, Environmental Issue Caused Mass Outage
A mass outage of Resideo / Honeywell Home's Alarment service has caused major problems and conspiracy theories touted by Ken Kirschenbaum and Peter Goldring of a ransomware attack.
Resideo has strongly denied these claims in a phone call with IPVM, admitting that it was an "embarrassingly simple" issue with their environmental system that caused the outage.
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