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2026-06-22 Cyber

Half the internet goes down as Cloudflare blames major outage on 'fiber cut' in North America

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Posted by Skidmark 2026-06-22 13:11|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1833 views ] Top

1 ...suggesting the widespread outage may have been triggered by damage to a major internet cable rather than a cyberattack.

So much for internet architecture. By design you are suppose to have multiple cable connections in the network, so if one node goes down the data is rerouted.

Posted by Procopiu2k 2026-06-22 13:36|| 2026-06-22 13:36|| Front Page Top

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Lets hope it has nothing to do the gray-hat rumor floating.

Posted by 2026-06-22 17:21|| 2026-06-22 17:21|| Front Page Top

3 How unfortunate our local technician/guest was hawking Cloudflare as a solution for Rantburg.com

Posted by badanov 2026-06-22 17:45|| 2026-06-22 17:45|| Front Page Top

4 Coincidence, I'm sure

Posted by Frank G 2026-06-22 18:00|| 2026-06-22 18:00|| Front Page Top

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Taking a peak at the public US Internet Fiber Map it would have had to been cut at multiple locations. The Global Map shows the same

Posted by NN2N1 2026-06-22 19:25|| 2026-06-22 19:25|| Front Page Top

6 Not the first time Cloudflare has brought down sections of the internet.

Posted by DarthVader 2026-06-22 20:23|| 2026-06-22 20:23|| Front Page Top

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