Cloudflare has confirmed that a major internal glitch caused the widespread internet outage on Tuesday. The company dismissed all rumours of a Distributed Denial of Service attack, which had quickly spread online after many top websites went down at the same time. Users across the world were unable to access platforms such as X, Canva and ChatGPT, and many received a Cloudflare error message. The sudden scale of the disruption made people believe that a major cyber attack was happening.

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The company clarified that there was no malicious activity behind the incident. The problem began after an unexpected issue in one of its internal database systems triggered a chain reaction that affected how traffic was routed across its global network. A

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