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The incident sparked widespread
. Officials reassured people that it was not another 9/11. The homeland security
said there was no
of a cyberattack or
threat. He called the incident a "telecommunications outage". The transportation secretary blamed the
on outdated infrastructure. He said: "We use 1980s little
lines." He added: "It's an old
that went down. It got overloaded." The secretary warned that systems would "continue to break" unless Congress allocated extra
. He said: "I can't build
if I don't have
."
