For two hours, a large chunk of European mobile traffic was rerouted through China

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https://www.zdnet.com/article/for-two-hours-a-large-chunk-of-european-mobile-traffic-was-rerouted-through-china/

By Catalin Cimpanu
Zero Day
ZDNet News
June 7, 2019

For more than two hours on Thursday, June 6, a large chunk of European mobile 
traffic was rerouted through the infrastructure of China Telecom, China's 
third-largest telco and internet service provider (ISP).

The incident occurred because of a BGP route leak at Swiss data center 
colocation company Safe Host, which accidentally leaked over 70,000 routes from 
its internal routing table to the Chinese ISP.

The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), which is used to reroute traffic at the ISP 
level, has been known to be problematic to work with, and BGP leaks happen all 
the time.

However, there are safeguards and safety procedures that providers usually set 
up to prevent BGP route leaks from influencing each other's networks.

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