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Cloudflare Outage Disrupts Major Sites Worldwide After Bot‑Mitigation Fault

The company says a routine configuration change exposed a latent flaw, not an attack.

Overview

  • Platforms including X, ChatGPT, Spotify, Canva and League of Legends saw widespread errors as Cloudflare reported a global service degradation.
  • CTO Dane Knecht took responsibility and said a failure in a bot‑mitigation service was triggered by a routine configuration change.
  • Cloudflare said error rates for Access and WARP returned to pre‑incident levels and services are being monitored for residual issues.
  • Engineers temporarily disabled or reactivated features in specific regions during remediation, including restoring WARP access in London.
  • Outage trackers showed simultaneous spikes across services, renewing concerns about internet reliance on a few infrastructure providers.