Tuesday's Internet Problems...Chinese traffic ends up in Wyoming...?

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Web mystery: China Internet traffic winds up in Wyoming

China has an estimated 591 million Internet users, the most of any country. On Tuesday, much of its Web traffic was redirected to IP addresses that belonged to a company that, as of last year, was located in a single, 1,700-square foot home located in a quiet neighborhood in Cheyenne, Wyo., according to The New York Times.
It's not entirely clear what happened in this instance. China's official Xinhua news agency cast suspicion on hackers, but some experts think the harm could have been self-inflected.

"This isn't the first time there have been these kind of glitches," Cook said. "

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