Cloudflare outage sparks internet chaos
A widely used Internet infrastructure company says it has fixed an issue that caused outages affecting users of ChatGPT and everything else in online gaming. league of legendsto the New Jersey Transit system.
Early on Wednesday morning (AEDT) Cloudflare said its engineers were no longer seeing some of the issues troubling its customers but were continuing to monitor for other issues.
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Other platforms that experienced outages included social media site X, Shopify, Dropbox, Coinbase and Moody’s credit rating service. Error Code 500 was displayed on Moody’s website and individuals were instructed to visit the Cloudflare website for more information.
The outage was believed to be behind technical issues causing flight delays at Australian airports on Tuesday night, but Air Services Australia said the problem was actually caused by “equipment failure”.
New Jersey Transit said parts of its digital services, including njtransit.com, may be temporarily unavailable or may load slowly. And New York City Emergency Management said there were reports of city services being affected by the outage. The municipality continues its inspections against disruptions.
In France, the website of the national railway company SNCF was affected. The company warned customers that “some information and programs may not be available or current.” “Our teams are working to restore these services as quickly as possible.”
San Francisco-based Cloudflare is working behind the scenes to make the internet faster and more secure, but when problems arise, it “results in a massive digital lockdown” for internet users, said cybersecurity expert Mike Chapple.
While many people think there is a direct line between their digital device and the website, what actually happens is that companies like Cloudflare sit in the middle of those connections, he said.
Cloudflare is a “content delivery network” that takes content from 20 percent of the world’s websites and mirrors it to thousands of servers around the world, said Chapple, an information technology professor at the University of Notre Dame Mendoza School of Business.
