"The root cause of the outage was a configuration file that is automatically generated to manage threat traffic,"
"The file grew beyond an expected size of entries and triggered a crash in the software system that handles traffic for a number of Cloudflare's services."
"To be clear, there is no evidence that this was the result of an attack or caused by malicious activity,"
"Given the importance of Cloudflare's services, any outage is unacceptable. We apologise to our customers and the Internet in general for letting you down today. We will learn from today's incident and improve."
A generated configuration file used to manage threat traffic grew beyond its expected number of entries and caused a crash in the software system that handles traffic for many Cloudflare services. The crash disrupted X, ChatGPT, Dropbox, Coinbase and thousands of other websites and apps, and affected services including France's SNCF timetable pages. Cloudflare ruled out a cyberattack, apologized for the outage and pledged to learn and improve. The incident follows a recent Amazon Web Services outage caused by a DNS misconfiguration. Failures in major internet infrastructure firms can produce widespread digital gridlock for users and businesses. Cloudflare serves hundreds of thousands of websites globally and is central to internet performance and security.
Read at Irish Independent
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