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Cloudflare Outage Disrupts Major Websites; Fix Implemented Quickly

3/2/2026

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Cloudflare experienced an outage on March 2, 2026, disrupting access to websites, including X and OpenAI.
The outage began at 11:48 AM London time due to a configuration file that exceeded its expected size.
Cloudflare reported a fix by 2:48 PM.
Cloudflare confirmed no evidence of malicious activity and apologized, committing to learn from the incident.
Prof. Alan Woodward noted limited internet infrastructure competition and rapid impact of outages.

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Story summary

Cloudflare experienced an outage on March 2, 2026, disrupting access to websites, including X and OpenAI.
The outage began at 11:48 AM London time due to a configuration file that exceeded its expected size.
Cloudflare reported a fix by 2:48 PM.
Cloudflare confirmed no evidence of malicious activity and apologized, committing to learn from the incident.
Prof. Alan Woodward noted limited internet infrastructure competition and rapid impact of outages.