Thousands of websites and networks around the world are temporarily unavailable due to a large-scale leakage of BGP (dynamic routing protocols) routes. The problems started with the Vodafone Autonomous System (AS55410) in India, but it affected large enterprises in the USA also, including Google. The system mistakenly announced support for more than 30,000 BGP prefixes or routes, and as a result, it was flooded with traffic that was not intended for it.”]
Source: https://gbhackers.com/major-bgp-leak-affects-thousand-of-networks-and-websites-globally/

