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(Bloomberg) — A major outage on the network of cybersecurity firm Cloudflare Inc. was resolved after disrupting websites ranging from X to ChatGPT around the globe for several hours on Tuesday.
The problem also affected websites for the chief US energy regulator and the New Jersey transit authority. Many services were back online by 10 a.m. in New York.
Cloudflare observed a “spike in unusual traffic” to one of its services around 6:20 a.m. New York time, causing some traffic passing through its network to experience errors, a company spokesperson said. The issue, caused by a configuration file that is automatically generated to manage threat traffic, took less than four hours to fix, Jackie Dutton, a Cloudflare spokesperson, said in a statement.
