The Infinite Brief

The incident affected more than 8,800 internet traffic routes from 200+ networks, and lasted for about an hour.

Impacted companies are a who’s who in the cloud and CDN market, including big names such as Google, Amazon, Facebook, Akamai, Cloudflare, GoDaddy, Digital Ocean, Joyent, LeaseWeb, Hetzner, and Linode.

The incident is a classic “BGP hijack.” BGP stands for the Border Gateway Protocol and is the de-facto system used to route internet traffic between internet networks across the globe.