Cloudflare apologises for outage which took down X and ChatGPT

Cloudflare experienced a significant outage affecting numerous high-profile websites, including X and ChatGPT, due to a configuration error in its threat traffic handling. The outage, which began around 11:30 GMT, led to widespread disruptions and errors across various services, prompting Cloudflare to apologize for the inconvenience. The company assured users that the issue was a technical problem and not the result of an attack, but the incident highlighted the internet's reliance on such infrastructure providers.