US company that defends millions of websites against malicious attacks suffers unidentified problem
US company that defends millions of websites against malicious attacks suffers unidentified problem
A key piece of the internet’s usually hidden infrastructure suffered a global outage on Monday, causing error messages to flash up across websites.
Cloudflare, a US company whose services include defending millions of websites against malicious attacks, suffered an unidentified problem on Tuesday, which meant internet users could not access some customers’ websites.
Neither could some site owners access their performance dashboards. Sites including X and Open AI suffered increased outages at the same time as Cloudflare’s problems, according to Downdetector.
The outage is ongoing but as of 12.21pm GMT, the company said: “We are seeing services recover, but customers may continue to observe higher-than-normal error rates as we continue remediation efforts.”
A further message said: “Update: we are continuing to investigate this issue.
