Cloudflare Outage Disrupts X, ChatGPT, and DownDetector Services
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Summary
A major Cloudflare outage on Tuesday morning disrupted numerous websites and services globally, including X (formerly Twitter), ChatGPT, and even the outage-tracking site DownDetector. The disruption began around 6:20 AM ET and was caused by a configuration file issue related to threat traffic management. Users encountered error messages asking them to unblock challenges.cloudflare.com to proceed. Cloudflare has since recovered from the outage.
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The disruption, which started at around 6:20AM ET, was linked to a 'configuration file that is automatically generated to manage threat traffic'
some sites displaying an error message that said, 'Please unblock challenges.cloudflare.com to proceed'
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