Hijacked RIPE account knocks out Orange Spain internet
An attacker used stolen credentials for Orange Spain's RIPE account to corrupt its BGP and RPKI settings, causing a nationwide internet outage for hours.
- Service
- Orange Spain
- Date
- 3 January 2024
- Cause
- Cyberattack
- Duration
- Not stated or multi-day
- Status
- resolved
- Severity
- major
- Region
- Global
- Source
- BleepingComputer ↗
Cite this
Nuffield Consulting, “Hijacked RIPE account knocks out Orange Spain internet”, The Daily Tech Wire outage & breach log, 3 Jan 2024. https://techwire.nuffieldconsulting.com/incidents/2024-01-03-orange-spain-outage/ (retrieved 15 Nov 2026).
This entry summarises public reporting. Please also cite the original source: BleepingComputer, https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hacker-hijacks-orange-spain-ripe-account-to-cause-bgp-havoc/.
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