Cloudflare is "aware of, and investigating" a server issue that's causing problems for popular websites and social platforms.

Infrastructure company Cloudflare has been hit with what it calls "widespread 500 errors, [with] Dashboard and API also failing."

I won’t mince words: earlier today we failed our customers and the broader Internet when a problem in @Cloudflare network impacted large amounts of traffic that rely on us. The sites, businesses, and organizations that rely on Cloudflare depend on us being available and

When one major cybersecurity firm goes down, like Cloudflare did this week, it can disrupt large swaths of the internet. That’s because a few large companies dominate the market.

Investigating - Cloudflare is aware of, and investigating an issue which potentially impacts multiple customers. Further detail will be provided as more information becomes available.

Hundreds of thousands of companies rely on the network management company to route online traffic. It’s the internet backbone that broke.