Brazilian carrier leaks BGP table

In November 2008, Brazilian service provider leaked a full table of routes that could have resulted in an accidental hijacking of other carrier's routes. Thankfully, the BGPMon volunteer service noticed the problem and sent out alerts across the Internet, which minimized the impact of the mistake. Only a few local customers were . 

Biggest-ever BGP threat unveiled

If these real-world BGP incidents don't scare you, here's one that will. In August 2008, two security researchers demonstrated at DEFCON how an attacker could eavesdrop or change a company's unencrypted data by exploiting BGP. The attacker would reroute all of the company's traffic through their own network and then send it to its destination without the owner's . What we don't know yet is whether this type of BGP eavesdropping attack is happening on the Internet today.