Topline
Cloudflare says it has fixed an outage that took down several websites and apps, including Zoom, LinkedIn, Shopify and Fortnite, early on Friday, in the latest major glitch involving the web traffic management giant whose shares dipped in premarket trading.
Key Facts
An update on Cloudflare’s status page said the nearly 30-minute outage was the result of “issues with Cloudflare Dashboard and related APIs.”
Several major websites use Cloudflare to manage internet traffic and prevent targeted cyberattacks.
Shortly after detecting the issue, Cloudflare said it quickly deployed a fix and said the outage was caused by a change made to how the platform’s firewall handled requests.
The outage reports on Downdetector dropped sharply after Cloudflare deployed the fix.
Crucial Quote
“This was not an attack; the change [to the platform’s firewall] was deployed by our team to help mitigate the industry-wide vulnerability disclosed this week,” Cloudflare said in the status update.
