Cloudflare, a company that helps websites secure and manage their internet traffic, experienced issues with its global network, the company said early today, disrupting service for many websites and apps.

The company said it believed the problems had been fully resolved around 9:30 a.m. Eastern time, roughly four hours after it first reported issues. It said it was continuing to monitor the situation.

The company said the cause was a file that set off “a crash in the software system that handles traffic for a number of Cloudflare’s services.” It said there was “no evidence that this was the result of an attack or caused by malicious activity.”

Users began reporting problems with websites and apps that use Cloudflare before 7 a.m. The company acknowledged on its website an issue that “po

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