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Cloudflare Outage Not Caused by Cyberattack

Cloudflare said the service disruption that led to significant customer outages on Tuesday was not the result of a hacker attack. Outages hit a wide range of online services, including ChatGPT, X, Dropbox, Shopify, and the game League of Legends. The incident has also reportedly caused some disruptions to websites and other digital services associated with critical organizations such as New Jersey Transit, New York City Emergency Management, and the French national railway company SNCF. Cloudflare initially reported seeing a “spike in unusual traffic”, which led some to believe that the outage may be the result of a cyberattack. However, Cloudflare CTO Dane Knecht pointed out on Tuesday morning that it was not an attack. Instead, Knecht said, “a latent bug in a service underpinning our…

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Nov 18, 2025
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