Information Technology Services

Vonage SMS temporarily paused

Outage category: Telephone

Location: All Vonage users

Status: Closed

Resolved Alert:

Initial Symptoms

Users were able to receive text messages but not receive them

Root Cause Analysis

Cause

Phishing incident within Vonage. They ended up with a complete shutdown/temporary pause in September.

Resolution

Vonage tightened their security protocols. Now require SSO or 2FA on all users of text messaging.

Prevention

We currently use SSO but 2FA has been implemented on all departmental lines.