U.S. Based Internet Traffic Redirected to China

At 15:54 GMT on April 8, 2010, McAfee detected a routing announcement from China’s state-controlled telecommunications company, China Telecom, which advertised 15 percent of the world’s Internet routes. For at least the next 18 minutes, up until China Telecom withdrew the announcement, a significant portion of the world’s Internet traffic was redirected through China to reach its final destination. This included data from U.S. military and government networks, civilian organizations and U.S. allies such as South Korea, India and Australia. Commercial companies were also affected.

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