Two undersea fibre-optic communications cables in the Baltic Sea, including one linking Finland and Germany, have been severed, raising suspicions of sabotage by bad actors.
The episode on Monday recalled other incidents in the same waterway that authorities have probed as potentially malicious, including damage to a gas pipeline and undersea cables last year and the 2022 explosions of the Nord Sea gas pipelines.
The 1,200-kilometre (745-mile) cable connecting Helsinki to the German port of Rostock stopped working around 0200 GMT on Monday, Finnish state-controlled cybersecurity and telecoms company Cinia said.
A 218-km (135-mile) internet link between Lithuania and Sweden’s Gotland Island went out of service at about 0800 GMT on Sunday, according to Lithuania’s Telia Lietuva, part of Sweden’s Telia Company group.
This is where the real meltdown begins. Just wait until they do this in multiple places around the world and create mayhem.
Don’t worry, we have offline porn backups just in case. (In all seriousness, I hope the people and ship are caught and arrested.)
Again. Year ago a cable between Finland and Estonia was destroyed. The ship that did it left from St. Petersburg and it’s ”homebase” was in Hong Kong. Russia doing Russiathings in the Baltic Sea.
These things are extremely durable to my understanding, to resist being regularly gnawed on by sharks;
SEVERED!?!
Sharks with laser beams
You say this like there is any other kind of shark.
They still have not evolved suitable defence against their other natural predator (the Russian state)
It probably was bad actors, but occasionally, ship anchors dragging along the bottom can also destroy them (eg, oil tankers, extended cargo ships, cruise ships, etc.)
Also Baltic Sea isn’t really known for sharks, cold as it is.
I love that expression : “sabotage by bad actors”. Is Matthew McConaughey so ashamed of their latest film they don’t want Finland to see it? Has there ever been a sabotage done by good actors? Like did Gary Oldman do the Gazprom one? Do you imagine the bad actors as angry people in balaclavas and black overalls, or as mustache twirling, cat stroking bond villains?
Blyat!
