Summary
A Cloudflare outage occurred early Tuesday, affecting several internet services for about six hours. This incident coincided with a scheduled vote in Congress on the release of files related to Jeffrey Epstein. The timing led to conspiracy theories connecting the outage to the vote.
Key Facts
- Cloudflare experienced a major outage starting around 10:20 UTC and resolved it by 14:30 UTC the same day.
- The outage affected services including X (formerly Twitter), Truth Social, and ChatGPT.
- The technical cause was a configuration file that unexpectedly grew too large, leading to system crashes.
- The House of Representatives was set to vote on the Epstein Files Transparency Act on the same day as the outage.
- Social media users speculated online that the outage was related to the scheduled vote.
- Cloudflare stated there was no evidence of an attack or malicious activity causing the outage.
- The company apologized for the incident and plans to prevent similar issues in the future.
