Financial services BGP hijack last week?

Tue May 2 07:29:32 UTC 2017

it only proves the need for wider RPKI adoption....

On 2 May 2017 at 06:49,  <valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu> wrote:
> I didn't see any mention of this here.  Any comments?
>
> "On Wednesday, large chunks of network traffic belonging to MasterCard, Visa,
> and more than two dozen other financial services companies were briefly routed
> through a Russian government-controlled telecom under unexplained circumstances
> that renew lingering questions about the trust and reliability of some of the
> most sensitive Internet communications."
>
> https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/04/russian-controlled-telecom-hijacks-financial-services-internet-traffic/