Two undersea fibre-optic communications cables in the Baltic Sea, including one linking Finland and Germany, have been severed, raising suspicions of sabotage by bad actors.

The episode on Monday recalled other incidents in the same waterway that authorities have probed as potentially malicious, including damage to a gas pipeline and undersea cables last year and the 2022 explosions of the Nord Sea gas pipelines.

The 1,200-kilometre (745-mile) cable connecting Helsinki to the German port of Rostock stopped working around 0200 GMT on Monday, Finnish state-controlled cybersecurity and telecoms company Cinia said.

A 218-km (135-mile) internet link between Lithuania and Sweden’s Gotland Island went out of service at about 0800 GMT on Sunday, according to Lithuania’s Telia Lietuva, part of Sweden’s Telia Company group.

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    3 days ago

    This is where the real meltdown begins. Just wait until they do this in multiple places around the world and create mayhem.

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      Don’t worry, we have offline porn backups just in case. (In all seriousness, I hope the people and ship are caught and arrested.)

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      Trump will allow it because he will get a cut from the deals he will make with his first lady for starlink and they will claim some stability bs because it’s wireless yadda yadda.