Company
Date Published
Jan. 25, 2023
Author
Kenny Johnson, Sam Rhea
Word count
2484
Language
English
Hacker News points
10

Summary

A software bug in one of Cloudflare's data centers led to service token authentication issues for approximately 10 minutes on October 24, causing disruptions to various Cloudflare services including Cloudflare WARP enrollment, Cloudflare Zero Trust device posture and re-auth policies, Cloudflare Gateway caches, R2 Storage and Cache Reserve, and Cloudflare Cache Purge. The incident impacted over 50,000 users per minute during the peak of the issue. Reference(s): https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410523781639 [SUMMARY: Service token authentication issues caused by software bug led to disruptions in various Cloudflare services, impacting over 50,000 users per minute during the peak of the issue.]