A widely used Internet infrastructure company said that it has resolved an issue that led to outages impacting users of everything from ChatGPT and the online game, ''League of Legends," to the New Jersey Transit system early Tuesday.
At 12:44 p.m. EST, Cloudflare said its engineers no longer saw some of the issues plaguing its customers, but that they were continuing to monitor for any further problems.
Others platforms that experienced outages Tuesday included the social media site X, Shopify, Dropbox, Coinbase, and the Moody's credit ratings service. Moody's website displayed an Error Code 500 and instructed individuals to visit Cloudflare's website for more information.
New Jersey Transit said parts of its digital services including njtransit.com, may be temporarily unavailable or slow to load. And New York City Emergency Management said there are reports city services being impacted by the outage. The city is continuing to monitor for disruptions.
In France, national railway company SNCF's website has been affected. The company warned customers that ''some information and schedules may not be available or up to date. Our teams are working to restore these services as quickly as possible.''
Cloudflare, based in San Francisco, works behind the scenes to make the internet faster and safer, but when problems flare up ''it results in massive digital gridlock'' for internet users, cybersecurity expert Mike Chapple said.
While most people think there's a direct line between their digital device and a website, what actually happens is that companies like Cloudflare sits in the middle of those connections, he said.
Cloudflare is a ''content delivery network'' that takes content from 20% of the world's websites and mirrors them on thousands of servers worldwide, said Chapple, an information technology professor at the University of Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business.
