Two undersea cables reportedly damaged off the coast of Perth following suspicious vessel activity — company CEO says faults happened ‘straight after each other and in close proximity'
- ID
- 13389
- Status
- summarized
- Published
- 12 Aug 2026, 5:00 PM
- Fetched
- 12 Aug 2026, 5:22 PM
- Provider
- Tom's Hardware
- Category
- technology
- Original URL
- https://www.tomshardware.com/networking/two-undersea-cables-reportedly-damaged-off-the-coast-of-perth-following-suspicious-vessel-activity-company-ceo-says-faults-happened-straight-after-each-other-and-in-close-proximity
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- https://www.tomshardware.com/feeds/all
Summary
- Score
- 5.5
- Created
- 12 Aug 2026, 5:23 PM
- Tags
- Audience
- developerssaas_startups
What happened
Two undersea cables were damaged off the coast of Perth, Australia, following suspicious vessel activity. A company CEO noted the faults occurred 'straight after each other and in close proximity,' suggesting possible deliberate sabotage rather than accidental anchor drags.
Why it matters
Undersea cable cuts near Perth affect connectivity paths between Australia and Southeast Asia, including Malaysia. SaaS founders and infra teams should verify whether their cloud regions or CDN paths route through affected cables and review failover assumptions — if two cables going down in close proximity is sabotage, redundancy across the same geographic chokepoint is not real redundancy.
Discussion angle
How many of us actually know which undersea cables our cloud traffic rides on, and whether our 'redundant' regions share the same physical cable path? This is a good prompt to map that out.