China Telecom Swallows Huge Amount of European Mobile Traffic For Over Two Hours
For more than two hours on Thursday, one of China’s largest internet providers forced a huge chunk of European mobile traffic to be rerouted through its own servers.
in April 2010, roughly 15 percent of the world’s internet traffic suddenly traversed through Chinese servers.
This included traffic flowing to and from U.S. government and military websites, including NASA. Commercial sites for companies such as Dell and Microsoft were similarly affected.
the duration of the episode is unusual, experts say, and such incidents can be malicious.
fingered China Telecom’s behavior as
highly su ious, revealing that the company had seamlessly “hijacked the domestic US and cross-US traffic and redirected it to China over days, weeks, and months.”
“Two hours is a long time for a routing leak of this magnitude to stay in circulation, degrading global communications,”
a major data center in Switzerland, Safe Host, leaked more than 70,000 routes to China Telecom, which in turn announced the routes on the global internet, causing huge amounts of traffic destined for European networks to be rerouted through its own servers.
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No doubt, Trash and his trade warriors were prepared for Chinese cyberwar