Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince has confirmed that the major global outage was not due to a cyberattack, but was instead caused by an internal configuration error in a database permissions change. (Source: ChatGPT) Show Quick Read Summary is AI Generated. Newsroom Reviewed

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince has confirmed that the major global outage on Tuesday was not due to a cyberattack, despite initial suspicions of a massive DDoS attack, but was instead caused by an internal configuration error in a database permissions change.

In a detailed postmortem published late Tuesday, Prince explained that a modification to permissions on a ClickHouse database cluster — intended to grant better access to underlying data and metadata — contained a flawed query. This mistake caused the system to

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