--- title: Orange Spain Outage: BGP Traffic Hijacked by Threat Actor description: Orange Spain faced a significant internet outage due to BGP Traffic Hijacking by a threat actor named 'Snow'. The hijacking was caused by exploiting... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/orange-spain-outage-bgp-traffic-hijacked-by-threat-actor-4vrsp3937 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Orange Spain Outage: BGP Traffic Hijacked by Threat Actor | daily.dev og:description: Orange Spain faced a significant internet outage due to BGP Traffic Hijacking by a threat actor named 'Snow'. The hijacking was caused by exploiting... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/orange-spain-outage-bgp-traffic-hijacked-by-threat-actor-4vrsp3937 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/4vrSp3937.png og:image:alt: Orange Spain Outage: BGP Traffic Hijacked by Threat Actor og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Orange Spain Outage: BGP Traffic Hijacked by Threat Actor **[Security Boulevard](https://daily.dev/sources/securityboulevard)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Orange Spain faced a significant internet outage due to BGP Traffic Hijacking by a threat actor named 'Snow'. The hijacking was caused by exploiting vulnerabilities in the company's RIPE account and implementing an invalid RPKI configuration. BGP relies on trust and malicious actors can redirect traffic to malicious destinations. RPKI is a cryptographic solution that associates BGP route announcements with the correct originating AS number. The Orange Spain outage resulted in network issues, but no client data was compromised. The hacker gained access through stolen credentials and mentioned the absence of two-factor authentication. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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