Several websites using Cloudflare experienced widespread global outages on Friday (December 5), marking the internet infrastructure company's second massive outage issue within the past month.

Cloudflare, which had previously dealt with widespread outages on November 18, confirmed that it was "investigating issues with Cloudflare Dashboard and related APIs," but confirmed the issues weren't caused by an attack in a statement to the Associated Press . The company claimed that a change to its firewall request process “caused Cloudflare’s network to be unavailable for several minutes this morning.”

Websites reported to be affected by the Cloudflare outage on Friday included X (formerly Twitter), LinkedIn, Canva, Discord, Spotify, Zoom, Fortnite, Shopify, Coinbase and ChatGPT. DownD

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