Eugene Svboda, a Metro reader, attempted to log onto his bank one day in November, but after typing his username and password, he was instead greeted by a grey screen that showed him a word he had never heard of before.

‘Cloudflare,’ Eugene tells Metro. ‘First, I thought it was malware. Used a second laptop at around 1 pm and got the same message from Cloudflare.’

Eugene never got into his online banking that day – but he was not the only person shown a certain grey error screen. Cloudflare, a company that helps websites secure and manage their internet traffic, experienced an issue with its global network this morning.

Users began reporting problems with websites and apps that use Cloudflare today, with even the internet outage tracker Downdetector knocked offline.

Within minutes, web

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