Chunghwa Telecom, part of the international consortium that owns the cable, said it was able to reroute telecom traffic to another cable and that service continued without interruption. The $500 million trans-Pacific high-speed cable has been connecting East Asian countries with the U.S. West Coast since 2008.
Taiwan has experienced dozens of incidents of damage to underwater communications cables in recent years, but has been unable to positively identify the cause of the attacks and has turned to the European Union for help.
The Taiwanese cable attack comes after Finland cut an undersea power cable between Finland and Estonia on Christmas Day, anchored by Russia’s shadow fleet of oil tankers.
These so-called gray zone attacks have increased since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine three years ago, as China and Moscow tested the West’s ability and readiness to withstand hybrid forms of attack.
