Security News > 2022 > October > Internet connectivity worldwide impacted by severed EU subsea cables
A major internet subsea fiber cable in the South of France was severed yesterday at 20:30 UTC, causing connectivity problems in Europe, Asia, and the United States, including data packet losses and increased website response latency.
Users still face problems due to app and content providers routing traffic through the impacted paths.
At 23:00 UTC, it was confirmed that the incident had impacted three links: Marseille-Lyon, Marseille-Milano, and Marseille-Barcelona.
At the same time, BCC reports that another subsea cable linking the Shetland Islands to the Scottish mainland has been damaged, too, leaving netizens on the island isolated from the rest of the world.
This incident comes as technicians were already working on fixing the link between the Faroe Islands and Shetland, which was also severed last week.
As for who might do something like that, western analysts have repeatedly warned that Russian submarines can cause underwater damage or cut cables buried in the seabed to protect from bottom trawlers.