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Cloudflare down: Company blames 'unusual' spike in traffic before outage errors
CNBCยท 2025-11-18 13:42
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 ...