https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/13/google_russia_routing/

Breaking People's connections in the US and elsewhere to Google – including its cloud, YouTube, and other websites – were suddenly rerouted through Russia and into China in a textbook Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) hijacking attack.

That means folks in Texas, California, Ohio, and so on, firing up their browsers and software were instead talking to systems in Russia and China, and not servers belonging to the Silicon Valley giant. Any information exchanged during the roughly-hour-long hijacking that wasn't encrypted may have leaked into the wrong hands.