WASHINGTON — Parts of the internet, including X and the online game "League of Legends," appeared to simply stop working Tuesday morning for several hours because of a technical problem with Cloudflare.

Cloudflare is an internet infrastructure platform that underpins much of the internet, including tools to protect websites from cyberattacks and to keep them operating under heavy traffic.

According to DownDetector.com , which tracks internet outages, the problems began around 6 a.m. Eastern. X (formerly Twitter), Letterboxd, online game League of Legends and ChatGPT-maker OpenAI all saw a spike in errors over the next hour.

Others that were experiencing issues included Shopify, Dropbox, Coinbase, Moody's and NJ Transit. Moody's website displayed an Error Code 500 and instructed indivi

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