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Cloudflare blames database error for 20% internet outage incident

A technical glitch in Cloudflare’s Bot Management System caused a major outage, affecting sites like ChatGPT, X, Coinbase, and Spotify.

Cloudflare blames a software crash after sites like X and ChatGPT went down

Cloudflare said on Tuesday morning that it was "all hands on deck" trying to work out the cause of the outage.

Ramsey Theory Group CEO Dan Herbatschek Shares Six Ways to Prevent Latent Bugs from Crashing Bot Mitigation Systems Following Cloudflare’s November 18 Incident

Herbatschek stresses resilience is crucial due to the fact that customers will never distinguish between a vendor’s outage and a company’s own.NEW YORK, Nov. 20, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- In response to this week’s high-profile Cloudflare outage that was triggered by a latent bug in a core service supporting its bot mitigation capability,
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Major Cloudflare outage drags the internet down. What we know so far

Cloudflare is experiencing technical problems, meaning that hundreds of millions of people across the globe are unable to access the internet. The issue was not related to a cyberattack, and Cloudflare's CEO apologized for the disruptions,

Cloudflare broke itself – and a big chunk of the Internet – with a bad database query

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince has admitted that the cause of its massive Tuesday outage was a change to database permissions, and that the company initially thought the symptoms of that adjustment indicated it was the target of a “hyper-scale DDoS attack,” before figuring out the real problem.

Does Cloudflare's (NET) Outage Reveal Limits to Its Role in a Centralized Internet Infrastructure?

Cloudflare experienced a widespread outage that disrupted access to major platforms such as X, ChatGPT, Spotify, Uber, and government services, with the incident traced to a configuration-related software crash rather than a cyberattack.

Cloudflare outage affects Spotify, Zoom, X, more. Here's what we know

Cloudflare is an internet infrastructure platform that powers many popular websites, including Spotify, OpenAI, League of Legends, and more. Cloudflare said the outage was resolved as of 9:30 a.m. EST, and all services would return to normal over the next several hours.

Cloudflare outage shows why crypto needs end-to-end decentralization

The crypto ecosystem has made strides in decentralizing blockchains, but the recent Cloudflare incident showed that true resilience requires decentralizing the frontend and storage layers as well, blockchain infrastructure platforms argue.

Cloudflare’s Global Outage Wasn’t a Cyber Attack: The Real Cause Was Surprisingly Ordinary

Cloudflare has detailed the cause of its November 18 outage, explaining how a faulty database query created a broken configuration file that spread across its network. Here’s what happened and why the failure became so widespread.
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