Cloudflare down: Cloudflare confirms a surge in unusual traffic behind the major outage. The disruption began around 6:20 a.m. ET. Users across the U.S. saw login failures and server errors. X logged more than twenty thousand outage reports. ChatGPT also faced large-scale access issues. Cloudflare says the incident came from internal service degradation, not a breach. Early checks show no evidence of data leaks. Systems struggled to route traffic. Restoration started after 8:45 a.m. ET. Users are advised to monitor accounts as services stabilize.