The Infrastructure Mess Causing Countless Internet Outages

Published: July 1, 2019, 4:31 p.m.

In a weeks-long stretch in 2014, hackers stole thousands of dollars a day in cryptocurrency from owners. In 2017, internet outages cropped up around the United States for hours. Last year, Google Cloud suffered hours of disruptions. Earlier this month, a large swath of European mobile data was rerouted through the state-backed China Telecom. And on Monday, websites and services around the world\u2014including the internet infrastructure firm Cloudflare\u2014experienced hours of outages.