Web hosting provider Cloudflare has suffered a major outage that has taken many popular websites offline. According to web monitoring service DownDetector, Cloudflare has encountered issues in the last hour. Major online services like Discord, Shopify, and Coinbase have been affected as users are unable to access websites or online portals. Some websites have been able to get back online, but many are still waiting to recover at press time.
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The company has yet to respond to the breakdown of its social networks, but its CEO, Matthew Price, tweeted: "Aware of the major issues facing @Cloudflare and affecting our network. The team is working to get to the bottom of things. Will continue to update.' Some reports claimed that the crash was due to a DDoS attack on Cloudflare systems, which saw a malicious network of connected devices bombard a targeted service with a large amount of traffic to take it offline. The crash even stopped DownDetector for a while. time, preventing many users from seeing what other services were affected. Today's shutdown is the latest of many issues in recent weeks, most recently on June 24, when a similar shutdown has shut down many sites again. Another incident occurred on May 31, putting many services out of service again.