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by ag_47 3109 days ago
Basically, a router somewhere in Russia claimed to be the owner of some ip addresses belonging to Google, Facebook, etc. Other neighbouring routers began forwarding packets from actual users to this router. The packets contain the HTTPS requests people were making to these sites.
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Bit late to the party but what could be done with the information that they got their hands on?