US company whose services include defending millions of websites against malicious attacks experiences 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, experienced an unidentified problem on Tuesday, which meant internet users could not access some of its customers’ websites.
Some site owners could not access their performance dashboards. Sites including X and OpenAI 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.”
