Public Incidents
- April 1997: The "AS 7007 incident" Earliest notable example?
- December 24, 2004: TTNet in Turkey hijacks the Internet
- January 22, 2006: Con-Edison hijacks big chunk of the Internet
- February 24, 2008: Pakistan's attempt to block YouTube access within their country takes down YouTube entirely.
- November 11, 2008: The Brazilian ISP CTBC - Companhia de Telecomunicações do Brasil Central leaked their internal table into the global BGP table. It lasts over 5 minutes. Although, it was detected by a RIPE route server and then it was not propagated, affecting practically only their own ISP customers and few others.
- April 8, 2010: Chinese ISP hijacks the Internet - China Telecom originated 37,000 prefixes not belonging to them in 15 minutes, causing massive outage of services globally.
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