US EditionCloudflare Outage Brings Down Major Websites for Hours
- On Dec. 5, Cloudflare, the internet infrastructure company, experienced a global outage that disrupted many major websites for hours before implementing a fix.
- Cloudflare said a firewall change to its Web Application Firewall parses requests impacted availability while addressing a security vulnerability in React Server Components following React's Dec. 3 update.
- Downdetector logged surges in reports for multiple platforms including LinkedIn, Coinbase, Substack, Shopify, HSBC and Deliveroo a little after 9:00 a.m. London time.
- This outage is the second in a month for Cloudflare, which emphasized it resulted from an internal change, not an attack; last month's error affected X, Google, OpenAI and United Press International.
- Cloudflare's incident report shows its network includes distributed denial of service protections, and the company identified the issue and began investigating just before 4 a.m. EST on Dec. 5, 2025.
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BreitbartThe Usual Suspects: Cloudflare Outage Briefly Breaks the Internet *Again*
Cloudflare experienced a brief outage on Friday that impacted numerous global websites, causing them to go offline temporarily. The outage comes less than three weeks after Cloudflare brought a significant portion of the internet to its knees with a long outage.
A technical malfunction at the provider Cloudflare has ensured that numerous websites and apps were not accessible for hours today.
On Friday, a breakdown hit several websites, including the US President Truth Social's social network, and the Canva and Doctolib sites, due to a problem identified by the US online service provider Cloudflare.
Shares of US-based Cloudflare plunged 4.5% in pre-market trading after a number of its websites experienced outages worldwide, the company announced on Friday.
In mid-November, a technical malfunction at Cloudflare made many websites and online apps unattainable for hours. Now the service from the USA has problems again. All current news about Cloudflare disruption here.
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