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Vodafone Idea (AS55410) BGP Hijack Briefly Diverts 30,000+ Global Prefixes into India

On 16–17 April 2021, Vodafone Idea Ltd's AS55410 suddenly originated more than 30,000 prefixes it did not own — against roughly 824 normally — including address space of Google, Microsoft, Akamai, Cloudflare and Fastly, producing a 13x surge of inbound traffic into its Indian network.