Regarding Wired's article, "Someone’s Been Siphoning Data Through a Huge Security Hole in the Internet."
What's so crazy about stories like this is that they are so common. The fact that researchers were warning about this very type of vulnerability us far back as 6 years ago (and yet, here we are), is crazy. The article brings up two points that are individually threatening, but combined are pretty terrifying.
1: "The stakes are potentially enormous, since once data is hijacked, the perpetrator can copy and then comb through any unencrypted data freely — reading email and spreadsheets, extracting credit card numbers, and capturing vast amounts of sensitive information."
2: this was largely government and corporate data being hijacked. This means that potential crimes could range from large-scale credit card theft, to potential national security risks. That is to say, it all depends on who was doing the re-routing and what their intentions are. Scary stuff.
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