nir Posted November 13, 2018 Share Posted November 13, 2018 Google data for search and cloud services went astray for more than an hour on Monday thanks to an "ugly" mistake by an African ISP. The data was sent the wrong way when MainOne Cable, in Nigeria, updated address books for key network hardware. The update saw it claim to be the best way to reach millions of Google net addresses. The mistake spread to other networks and led to Google traffic travelling via China and Russia. New routes In a tweet, MainOne said the mistake had been made during a "planned network upgrade". It added: "The error was corrected within 74 minutes and processes put in place to avoid reoccurrence." All the different networks that make up the internet constantly swap information about the best way to reach other parts of the global system. Mistakes on one network can mean traffic is re-routed the wrong way. Google said it had spotted the error and blamed it on "incorrect routing" of data. A spokesman for the search giant told technology news website Ars Technica that all traffic sent the wrong way was encrypted, which should "limit" any damage caused by it being misdirected. Later on Monday web company Cloudflare was hit by a second MainOne Cable mistake that also saw much of its traffic re-routed. In a statement, Matthew Prince, chief executive of Cloudflare, said the mistake had probably been made as a result of a network meeting in Nigeria in early November. Typically, he told Ars Technica, the meetings prompt ISPs to set up more data-sharing agreements with each other. The mistake that re-routed data had been made while a new data-sharing link had been being created, he said. "This was a big, ugly screw-up," he said. "Intentional route leaks we've seen to do things like steal crypto-currency are typically far more targeted." Mr Prince's explanation defused earlier claims that the re-routing had been an attempt to steal data. Ameet Naik from net security company ThousandEyes had characterised the incident to The Register as "grand theft internet" and said it was "unlikely" to be accidental. Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted November 13, 2018 Share Posted November 13, 2018 Too bad they came back up.. yesterday it seemed like Eset was being hit hard as well it took me like hour to reach there activation servers to renew my key. As far as Google i don't care about them only people and sites that use there services care , wow they was offline for 2 minutes the internet is going to end not. I remember when hardly no one knew what Google was when they was just a nobody just starting out and the internet ran just fine without them . China has Google blocked and there internet runs fine without it , While China blocks some stuff you can find sites on baidu that Google blocks with there Anti Piracy filters. That's what people get for trusting there info with a service that got rich harvesting there data . Lol last week it was the CIA data Google was leaking and this week it is everyone. But fact is Google always has access to your data and they will hand it right over to any country they serve and you ask them why they will say because it's the law . That's called capitalism at it's finest, They put profit and there existence above peoples privacy and security . Sites hiding behind Cloudflare have outages all the time and are attacked on a regular bases.. Poor Google they got billions of dollars and still they get knocked out maybe they should shut down. . Google are the one that want to put there noise back in China after they got hacked last time ..They deserve everything bad happens to them plus a 100 fold more... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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