U.S. internet infrastructure company Cloudflare said on Friday it had issued a fix for an issue with its dashboard and related apps.

Shares of the company fell as much as 4.5% in premarket trading after global websites went down and Cloudflare said it was investigating.

The company issued an update minutes later saying it had "implemented a fix" and was watching for results. Cloudflare shares pared some of its losses on the news and were last seen 2% lower.

Sites including professional networking platform LinkedIn, digital currency exchange Coinbase and online publishing platform Substack were among those that appeared to be impacted by the issue.

Outage monitoring site Downdetector, which itself appeared to be briefly impacted, said users reported a sharp uptick in problem

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