Cloudflare's Self-DDoS Outage: How a Simple React Bug Knocked Out the Dashboard
Sep 16, 2025 · 3 min read · Cloudflare, one of the world’s largest cloud security providers, faced a major dashboard/API outage on September 12, 2025 — all because of a subtle coding error. In a surprising twist, Cloudflare engineers accidentally “DDoSed” their own infrastructu...
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