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Cloudflare Outage Disrupts Major Sites Worldwide as Partial Recovery Begins

The company's CTO said a latent flaw in a bot‑mitigation service was triggered by a routine configuration change, ruling out an attack.

Overview

  • Access to X, ChatGPT, Spotify, Canva and League of Legends was interrupted for millions of users, with many sites returning HTTP 500 errors.
  • Cloudflare confirmed internal service degradation, restored Access and WARP to pre‑incident error levels, and re‑enabled WARP in London.
  • CTO Dane Knecht apologized for the disruption, attributed it to the bot‑mitigation subsystem, and said a detailed post‑incident report is forthcoming.
  • Cloudflare reported a fix had been deployed yet acknowledged lingering issues as teams continued recovery work and impact assessment.
  • Monitoring platforms and some Cloudflare control tools also faltered, and reports linking scheduled maintenance to the outage remained unconfirmed by the company.