McAfee’s Dmitri Alperovitch: “There is absolutely no proof that this was an intentional attack. Routing hijacks happen fairly frequently and most of them are accidental [in] nature” Arbor Networks’ Craig Labovitz: “Inadvertent BGP route leaks and intentional hijacks have been part and parcel of Internet routing for the last 20 years” He suggests tackling security issues in BGP, encouraging adoption of the DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) to protect against data spoofing.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/schwartz-on-security-china-s-internet-hijacking-misread