An expansive Spectrum outage affecting thousands of Los Angeles County customers was a criminal act, according to company officials.

They say that the outage occurred when someone sliced fiber optic lines in Northridge on Wednesday afternoon, and may not be fixed until Thursday morning. Repair crews are already working to splice fiber lines to restore service as soon as possible.

"This afternoon our fiber optic lines were intentionally cut in another felony criminal attack on our critical infrastructure, resulting in a temporary outage for residents and businesses in the Northridge and the surrounding areas," said a statement from a Spectrum spokesperson. "Criminal attacks on communications infrastructure is a growing issue affecting the entire telecommunications industry, not just Spect

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