Cloudflare down: Company blames 'unusual' spike in traffic before outage errors

Internet infrastructure company Cloudflare was hit by an outage on Tuesday, knocking several major websites offline for global users.OpenAI's ChatGPT and Elon Musk's social media platform X appear to have been affected by the Cloudflare issues, according to Downdetector, which itself could not be accessed for some users.A Cloudflare spokesperson said the company observed a "spike in unusual traffic" to one of its services around 6:20 a.m. ET, causing some traffic passing through its network to experience er ...