Overview
- Cloudflare reported an unusual traffic spike to one of its services around 12:20 p.m. in Paris that led to errors across part of its network.
- The company said a latent software bug activated after a routine configuration change degraded service and emphasized the incident was not an attack.
- Outages and slowdowns hit services such as X, ChatGPT, Spotify, League of Legends, Canva, Decathlon and Grindr, with thousands of user reports logged on Downdetector.
- Cloudflare said it deployed a fix at 3:42 p.m. in Paris and considers the issue resolved, with teams continuing to monitor and investigate lingering effects.
- The incident highlighted concentration risk in internet infrastructure, as Cloudflare says it manages nearly 20% of global web traffic.