Multiple subsea fiber optic cables in the Red Sea suffered simultaneous cuts on September 6, 2025, disrupting global internet and communications traffic. The incident began at 05:45 UTC and has forced operators to reroute traffic between Asia, the Middle East, and Europe over. The Internet Outages Map is an at-a-glance visualization of global Internet health over the last 24 hours, tracking Internet outages across ISPs, top application providers, public clouds, and edge service networks. In the fourth quarter, we tracked only a single government-directed Internet shutdown, but multiple cable cuts wreaked havoc on. On 17–18 November 2024, two submarine telecommunication cables, the BCS East-West Interlink and C-Lion1 fibre-optic cables, were disrupted in the Baltic Sea. The incidents involving both cables occurred in close proximity to each other and near-simultaneously, which prompted accusations from. Significant internet outages in Finland have been attributed to a damaged fiber optic cable. The Baltic Sea region has seen similar disruptions in recent months. The Baltic Sea region has seen several cases of suspicious damage against underwater critical infrastructure since 2022, but this week's. The Finnish government on Tuesday said a data network outage caused by damage to two land-based communications cables between Finland and Sweden a day earlier was the result of construction work in the area.
