Cloudflare experienced a technical issue on Dec. 5 that caused dashboard and API failures just after 9:00 a.m. London time, knocking several major websites offline for a few hours. Affected services included LinkedIn, Coinbase and Substack, and Downdetector reported spikes for Shopify, HSBC and Deliveroo. Cloudflare implemented a fix and its status page shows systems are operational. The incident follows a similar outage last month that impacted X, Google and OpenAI.
Cloudflare Outage Disrupts Major Websites for Hours — Services Restored After Fix
10:04 PM, 12/05/2025
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