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

ZDnet ^ | June 7, 2019 | Catalin Cimpanu

[Governor Dinwiddie]

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.

But instead of ignoring the BGP leak, China Telecom re-announced Safe Host's routes as its own, and by doing so, interposed itself as one of the shortest ways to reach Safe Host's network and other nearby European telcos and ISPs.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Let's see. Just when President Trump and world leaders are meeting in France, all French cell phone traffic is "accidently" routed through China and Chinese telecom equipment. Somebody has a lot of 'splainin' to do.
 

[pepsi_junkie]

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.

An accident. Right.

[BenLurkin]

Interesting!

[libertylover]

Ah so, now China know everything about you.

[Ken H]

China: “Happy to be of service. Please call again any time”.

[ptsal]

Hogwash....

Swiss data center colocation company Safe Host, which accidentally leaked over 70,000 routes from its internal routing table to the Chinese ISP.

[gaijin]

Somebody French doesn’t like Trump.

Gosh I wonder who that could be, right..?

[SaveFerris]

[a large chunk of European mobile traffic]

Is this another thread about Theresa May?

Maybe it was USA Prime Credit through Russia

Hello, my name is Peggy...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8L2cI8brzQ

[frank ballenger]

China will say “To be fair, we won’t steal any more intellectual property and private information for use in blackmail than we can use. How’s that? No use in being bullies. “

[butlerweave]

The EU will announce a very big Chinese contract after this ,LOL

[ptsal]

Is “fair” a word that is defined in Chinese?

[buckalfa]

All your communication are belong to us?

[kaehurowing]

All your base are belong to us.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The man in the middle sees all.

[frank ballenger]

Is “fair” a word that is defined in Chinese?

"With Kung Pao Chicken is more charges of $1 for egg roll than is already comes with chop suey with money charges. Only fair."

[Yollopoliuhqui]

“Leak”?...like with a cloth...