SAN FRANCISCO–Cloudflare is reporting it has resolved a network problem that briefly knocked offline a wide range of websites — including those of credit unions, banks, e-commerce platforms, video-conferencing services and others — in one of the most widespread internet disruptions since a major Cloudflare outage just one month earlier.
“A fix has been implemented, and we are monitoring the results,” the San Francisco-based company said on its status page. Cloudflare reported earlier issues with its dashboard and related APIs that cascaded across its global network.
While Cloudflare did not identify affected clients, outage trackers showed interruptions on the morning of Dec. 5 at Shopify, Zoom, LinkedIn and multiple financial institutions. Several government sites in Norway and Sweden were also unreachable, including the Norwegian central bank, the sovereign wealth fund and the nation’s tax authority.
Credit Unions Affected
Credit unions also reported or showed signs of instability during the disruption. Among those with outages detected by uptime monitors or reported by members were:
- Alliant Credit Union (Chicago) – intermittent website loading failures
- BECU (Tukwila, Wash.) – online-banking access delays
- SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union (Santa Ana, Calif.) – website timeouts
- VyStar Credit Union (Jacksonville, Fla.) – periodic access issues
- America First Credit Union (Riverdale, Utah) – web-banking connectivity problems
Most services for those credit unions were restored within minutes, though some reported lingering slowness as Cloudflare’s fix propagated across its network, according to various reports.
Earlier Outage
The latest incident followed a larger outage in November in which Cloudflare disruptions took down X, ChatGPT and thousands of other sites for several hours. Analysts have noted how the outages underscore how dependent global internet traffic is on a handful of infrastructure companies that sit between website operators and end users, helping filter malicious traffic and keep sites reachable.
Cloudflare said it will publish a full incident report once the root cause analysis is complete.
