Cloudflare, one of the biggest DDoS and data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/security” data-auto-tag-linker=”true” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/security”>security providers on the internet, data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/news/live/cloudflare-outage-under-investigation-as-twitter-downdetector-go-down-company-confirms-global-network-issue-clone” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/news/live/cloudflare-outage-under-investigation-as-twitter-downdetector-go-down-company-confirms-global-network-issue-clone”>suffered a major outage yesterday, knocking out several major websites, including X, OpenAI, and even some McDonald’s branches across the globe. Its chief technology officer has since data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/service-providers/cloudflare-apologizes-after-outage-takes-major-websites-offline” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/service-providers/cloudflare-apologizes-after-outage-takes-major-websites-offline”>apologized for the massive error, while its co-founder, Matthew Prince, has since released the details of the cause of the outage on the data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/” data-url=”https://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/” target=”_blank” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link”>company blog.
Since Cloudflare is a web security outfit that protects a big chunk of the internet from DDoS…
