# Russian Telco Hijacked Internet Traffic  of Google, AWS, Cloudflare, and Others

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**Created:** [April 7, 2020, 2:43pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/russian-telco-hijacked-internet-traffic-of-google-aws-cloudflare-and-others/77937 "2020-04-07T14:43:16Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 7, 2020, 2:43pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/russian-telco-hijacked-internet-traffic-of-google-aws-cloudflare-and-others/77937/1 "2020-04-07T14:43:16Z")

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Last week, traffic meant for more than 200 of the world’s largest content delivery networks (CDNs) and cloud hosting providers was [suspiciously redirected through Rostelecom, Russia’s state-owned telecommunications provider](https://www.zdnet.com/article/russian-telco-hijacks-internet-traffic-for-google-aws-cloudflare-and-others/). From a report: _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._