Cloudflare Outage: CTO Reveals Root Cause, Rules Out Cyber Attack, Promises Fix

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Cloudflare's Chief Technology Officer, Dane Knecht, took to social media to address the recent widespread outage affecting numerous websites and businesses. He acknowledged the company's failure to meet expectations, causing significant disruptions. In a transparent statement, Knecht explained that a latent bug in the company's bot mitigation service, triggered by a routine configuration change, led to a network degradation and impacted various services. He categorically ruled out the possibility of a cyber attack. Cloudflare has since implemented a fix and claims the incident is resolved. However, the company is continuing to monitor services to ensure a smooth return to normalcy. Users may still experience some issues, but the CTO has assured that the company is working diligently to prevent such incidents in the future and restore customer trust.