Unless we know what the "normal" breakage rate it's impossible to tell. Anything with "cable" in it now goes into the news flow
for example this doesn't seem to have been a Russian plot
The
2008 submarine cable disruption refers to three separate incidents of major damage to submarine optical communication cables around the world. The first incident caused damage involving up to five high-speed
Internet submarine communications cables in the
Mediterranean Sea and
Middle East from 23 January to 4 February 2008, causing internet disruptions and slowdowns for users in the Middle East and
India. The incident called into doubt the safety of the undersea portion of the Internet cable system.
In late February there was another outage, this time affecting a fiber optic connection between
Singapore and
Jakarta.