Someone's Been Siphoning Data Through a Huge Security Hole in the Internet

24 Dec 2013 • wired.com

The stakes are potentially enormous, since once data is hijacked, the perpetrator can copy and then comb through any unencrypted data freely — reading email and spreadsheets, extracting credit card numbers, and capturing vast amounts of sensitive information.

The attackers initiated the hijacks at least 38 times, grabbing traffic from about 1,500 individual IP blocks — sometimes for minutes, other times for days — and they did it in such a way that, researchers say, it couldn’t have been a mistake.

This is scary.  I hope someone is working on fixing this.  Or is stronger encryption and "trust no one" going to become the new norm and we should just assume our data is always hijacked?