A massive internet outage struck several global digital platforms on Tuesday, leaving millions of users across the globe feeling handicapped after they could no longer access services like X, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Perplexity AI, Google Cloud, and Canva.
It also made many question the prudence of most of these companies to “put all of their cybersecurity eggs in one basket,” as a user quipped.
With the disruption traced back to a critical network failure at Cloudflare, a web infrastructure company that powers a significant portion of the internet, its system site flashed an update that said: “Cloudflare is experiencing an internal service degradation. Some services may be intermittently impacted. We are focused on restoring service. We will update as we are able to remediate. More updates to follow shortly.”
The site identified the problem as a “global network issue” that caused widespread API and dashboard failures.
Popular gaming titles League of Legends and Valorant were also impacted as outage tracking website, Downdetector, saw a massive spike in reports, logging over 10,000 complaints for various service disruptions before the site itself became a victim of the Cloudflare outage and struggled to load.
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As screens went blank, users flocked to the few surviving platforms, such as Reddit and Threads, to vent their frustration and crack jokes about the “internet meltdown”.
“My entire staff portal and sites are using Cloudflare, so everything is down,” a netizen said, while another took a dig at how the outage happened just after maintenance.
“Cloudflare being down, and almost all of my most visited websites and mobile banking are also down with them, means that it’s probably not smart for these companies to put all of their cybersecurity eggs in one basket,” a user quipped.
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