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Cloudflare Pins Global Outage on Bot-Detection Update Triggered by Access Rights Error

The company says an internal permissions change produced an oversized rules file that crashed components across its network.

Der Ausfall bei Cloudflare zeigt, wie abhängig das Internet von einigen wenigen großen Diensten ist
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X und ChatGPT down: Cloudflare meldet massive Störung. (Symbolbild)

Overview

  • The disruption started around 12:48 CET with widespread 500 errors that also hit the Cloudflare dashboard and API.
  • Cloudflare reported the issue had been identified and a corrective change deployed, with services recovering through the afternoon under continued monitoring.
  • Access and WARP services were restored, and WARP connectivity in London was temporarily disabled as part of remediation.
  • Major customers including ChatGPT/OpenAI, X, PayPal, Ikea and Discord experienced outages or degraded performance linked to the incident.
  • Cloudflare’s support ticket portal was disrupted while dashboard chat remained available, and the company’s shares dropped roughly 5% in pre-market trading.