Cloudflare Network Glitch Disrupts 20% of the Internet

A major outage from Cloudflare, an Internet infrastructure company, led to widespread disruptions affecting platforms like ChatGPT, League of Legends, and New Jersey Transit. The issue, which also affected services in France and the social media site X, was mostly resolved by Cloudflare's engineers later in the day.

A major outage hit the internet Tuesday morning as Cloudflare, a leading infrastructure company, faced technical issues.

This massive disruption impacted several platforms, including ChatGPT, League of Legends, and New Jersey Transit, causing significant digital gridlock for users.

While Cloudflare managed to resolve most of the issues later in the day, some lingering problems remained under their engineers' watchful eyes.

The outage also reached social media giant X, Shopify, and the Moody's credit ratings service. Significant disruptions in France's national railway, SNCF, highlighted the global reach of the event.

Cloudflare's role is to enhance internet speed and security by sitting between end-users and websites, a position that can cause significant disruptions when it malfunctions.

(With inputs from agencies.)