Thousands of websites, including popular services like Discord, can no longer be accessed at least temporarily on Friday evening. The reason is a glitch in Cloudflare's DNS service.
A Failure at the IT security company Cloudflare temporarily paralyzed numerous popular services and websites such as the Chat service Discord, the game "League of Legends" or the page Politico on Friday. The problems do not seem to be fully resolved.
Cloudflare immediately emphasized that it was not an attack, but a technical problem. The defect in a router in Atlanta meant that parts of the network were not available. Various services and websites use the Cloudflare service, among other things, to secure their systems.
An unprecedented hacking attack on Twitter had caused a stir this week. Unknown people advertised on accounts of celebrities such as ex-President Barack Obama and Tesla boss Elon Musk a scam with the crypto currency Bitcoin.
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