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r721 7 hours ago

Quote from The Guardian's story:

>A spokesperson for Cloudflare said: “We saw a spike in unusual traffic to one of Cloudflare’s services beginning at 11.20am. That caused some traffic passing through Cloudflare’s network to experience errors. While most traffic for most services continued to flow as normal, there were elevated errors across multiple Cloudflare services.

>“We do not yet know the cause of the spike in unusual traffic. We are all hands on deck to make sure all traffic is served without errors. After that, we will turn our attention to investigating the cause of the unusual spike in traffic.”

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/18/cloudflar...

Jamie452 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Sounds like it may have been a cyber attack...

lm28469 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

That's not what I'm hearing from insiders

delfinom 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

"Unusual spike of traffic" can just be errant misconfiguration that causes traffic spikes just from TCP retries or the like. Jumping to "cyber attack" is eating up Hollywood drama.

In most cases, it's just cloud services eating shit from a bug.

catholiccs 4 hours ago | parent [-]

PEBKAC error