Some instances of Internet outages caused by hijacked traffic, as listed by the Department of Homeland Security and other sources:
April 1997: MAI Network Services, an Internet service provider in Virginia, passes bad routing information to Sprint, which relays it, causing widespread outages.
April 1998: An Israeli ISP causes widespread outages.
December 1999: AT&T's server network is hijacked by another ISP.
May 2000: Sprint addresses hijacked by another ISP.
April 2001: Global Internet carrier Flag Telecom hijacks …
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