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Massive Cloudflare outage was triggered by file that suddenly doubled in size (arstechnica.com)

submitted 2 hours ago by lemmydev2 to c/pulse_of_truth

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"I worry this is the big botnet flexing," CEO said. But outage was self-inflicted.

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[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 6 points 1 hour ago

So they have no idea what caused this file to double in size and propagate itself across the network. And their fix was just to replace it with an older version.

There doesn't appear to be anything preventing this problem from happening again.