TLDR InfoSec · MISCELLANEOUS

WIDESPREAD CLOUDFLARE OUTAGE BLAMED ON MYSTERIOUS TRAFFIC SPIKE

arstechnica.com3 min read

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A major Cloudflare outage temporarily knocked many major websites and platforms offline due to a spike in unusual traffic, which overwhelmed a configuration file and caused core systems to crash. Although not caused by an attack, the outage impacted services like X, ChatGPT, Amazon, and Spotify.