The story about MyEtherWallet.com hijack or how to become a millionare in 2 hours.

Tue Apr 24 20:35:38 UTC 2018

On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 10:22:19PM +0200, Fredrik Korsbäck wrote:
> Id take it that 15169 accepted the prefix for some reason over a
> bilateral peering-sesssion (to the best of my knowledge the equinix
> routeservers does indeed do filter, but please correct me on this one)
> with 10297 and hence poisoned the 8.8.8.8 resolver for some time with
> the wrong ip-addr.

I have no reason to believe the Equinix route servers propagated or
contributed to this hijack, I checked with them. It is a good thing
their route server has filters, otherwise the damage could've been even
worse!

Kind regards,

Job