Chinese ISP hacks internet (again)

ComputerWorld:

On Thursday morning, bad routing data from a small Chinese ISP called IDC China Telecommunication was re-transmitted by China’s state-owned China Telecommunications, and then spread around the Internet, affecting Internet service providers such as AT&T, Level3, Deutsche Telekom, Qwest Communications and Telefonica.

“There are a large number of ISPs who accepted these routes all over the world,” said Martin A. Brown, technical lead at Internet monitoring firm Renesys.

The bad routes may have simply caused all Internet traffic to these networks to not get through, or they could have been used to redirect traffic to malicious computers in China.