Cloudflare, a platform that provides network services, was the victim of a DDoS attack last week. It was also accidentally the cause of it.

You might remember Cloudflare was linked to a massive outage in June of this year. When Cloudflare went down, so did sites like Spotify, Google, Snapchat, Discord, Character.ai, and more, all of which rely on Cloudflare's services. That time, the disruption was sparked by a Google Cloud outage. Earlier this month, Cloudflare had another blunder, albeit much less disruptive than its outage from the summer — but this time, it did it to itself.

"We had an outage in our Tenant Service API which led to a broad outage of many of our APIs and the Cloudflare Dashboard," Tom Lianza , the vice president of engineering for Cloudflare and Joaquin Madruga ,

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