Around 10 a.m. ET, Cloudflare said it was "continuing to monitor for errors to ensure all services are back to normal." Other platforms that experienced outages Tuesday included the social media site X, Shopify, Dropbox, Coinbase, and the Moody's credit ratings service. Moody's website displayed an Error Code 500 and instructed individuals to visit Cloudflare's website for more information. New Jersey Transit said parts of its digital services including njtransit.com, may be temporarily unavailable or slow to load.
The outage is already being discussed on various forums. Reports are also flooding in on Downdetector. In a short period of time, 5,000 reports appeared that Cloudflare was unavailable. Because the company enables connections to countless websites, many reports of problems with sites operated by Cloudflare clients will be the result of the ongoing outage.
"The great patron of the internet for the last 27 years was Google. The great villain of the internet today is also Google," Prince said. He claimed that in the past, for every two pages that Google crawled to inform its search engine, it would, on average, send one visitor to those sites-traffic that publishers can monetise with advertising.
Microsoft has announced a significant takedown of RaccoonO365, a popular tool used by hackers to seize Microsoft 365 credentials via phishing. The tech giant's Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) seized 338 domains linked to RaccoonO365, which form the backbone of its phishing as a service (PhaaS) offering used in thousands of attacks worldwide.
Because of this breach, someone outside Cloudflare got access to our Salesforce instance, which we use for customer support and internal customer case management, and some of the data it contains,
The default and most commonly used table engine in ClickHouse, MergeTree, is optimized for high-throughput batch inserts. It writes each insert as a separate partition, then runs background merges to keep data manageable. This makes writes very fast, but not when they arrive in lots of tiny batches, which was exactly our case with millions of individual devices uploading one log event every 2 minutes.
Stephanie Cohen, Cloudflare's chief strategy officer, stated, 'The change in traffic patterns has been rapid, and something needed to change. This is just the beginning of a new model for the internet.'
