Hacker hijacks Orange Spain RIPE account to cause BGP havoc

Orange Spain suffered an internet outage after an attacker compromised the company's RIPE account (likely via credentials stolen by a Raccoon infostealer), then modified BGP and RPKI records to change the originating AS for Orange prefixes; the misconfiguration caused routing disruptions that were later remediated after RIPE restored the account and Orange confirmed services were largely restored and no customer data was exposed.