A widely used Internet infrastructure company said that it has largely resolved an issue that led to outages impacting users of everything from ChatGPT and the online game, \u201cLeague of Legends,\u201d to the New Jersey Transit system early Tuesday. <\/p>\n
At 10:40 a.m. EST, Cloudflare said its engineers were still mitigating some lingering issues after they posted a fix for the outage, but that they were continuing to monitor for any further problems.<\/p>\n
Others platforms that experienced outages Tuesday included the social media site X, Shopify, Dropbox, Coinbase, and the Moody\u2019s credit ratings service. Moody\u2019s website displayed an Error Code 500 and instructed individuals to visit Cloudflare\u2019s website for more information.<\/p>\n
New Jersey Transit said parts of its digital services including njtransit.com, may be temporarily unavailable or slow to load. And New York City Emergency Management said there are reports city services being impacted by the outage. The city is continuing to monitor for disruptions.<\/p>\n
In France, national railway company SNCF\u2019s website has been affected. The company warned customers that \u201csome information and schedules may not be available or up to date. Our teams are working to restore these services as quickly as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cloudflare, based in San Francisco, works behind the scenes to make the internet faster and safer, but when problems flare up \u201cit results in massive digital gridlock\u201d for internet users, cybersecurity expert Mike Chapple said.<\/p>\n
While most people think there\u2019s a direct line between their digital device and a website, what actually happens is that companies like Cloudflare sits in the middle of those connections, he said.<\/p>\n
Cloudflare is a \u201ccontent delivery network\u201d that takes content from 20% of the world\u2019s websites and mirrors them on thousands of servers worldwide, said Chapple, an information technology professor at the University of Notre Dame\u2019s Mendoza College of Business.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you access a website protected by Cloudflare, your computer doesn\u2019t connect directly to that site,\u201d Chapple said. \u201cInstead, it connects to the nearest Cloudflare server, which might be very close to your home. That protects the website from a flood of traffic, and it provides you with a faster response. It\u2019s a win-win for everyone, until it fails, and 20% of the internet goes down at the same time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Last month Microsoft<\/a> had to deploy a fix to address an outage of their Azure cloud portal that left users unable to access Office 365, Minecraft and other services. The tech company wrote on its Azure status page<\/a> that a configuration change to its Azure infrastructure caused the outage.<\/p>\n And Amazon<\/a> experienced a massive outage of its cloud computing service<\/a> in October. The company resolved the issue, but the outage took down a broad range of online services, including social media, gaming, food delivery, streaming and financial platforms.<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n Associated Press writers Kelvin Chan in London and Sylvie Corbet in Paris contributed to this report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A widely used Internet infrastructure company said that it has largely resolved an issue that led to outages…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[181,28,559,793,174,132356,155940,1999,3774,74,155939,795,965],"class_list":["post-299499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-business","tag-gaming","tag-general-news","tag-internet","tag-mike-chapple","tag-new-jersey-transit","tag-new-york-city","tag-power-outages","tag-technology","tag-technology-outages","tag-u-s-news","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}