Security News > 2023 > November > Cloudflare website downed by DDoS attack claimed by Anonymous Sudan
Update November 09, 17:19 EST: A threat group known as Anonymous Sudan claimed that they were the ones who took down Cloudflare's website in a distributed denial-of-service attack.
Cloudflare confirmed that the outage resulted from a DDoS attack that only affected the www.
"Cloudflare experienced a DDoS attack that caused intermittent connectivity issues to www.cloudflare.com for a few minutes. This DDoS attack did not affect any service or product capability that Cloudflare provides, and no customers were impacted by this incident," a spokesperson told BleepingComputer.
"Cloudflare's website is deliberately hosted on separate infrastructure and cannot impact Cloudflare services. To be clear, our website is fully functional and up and running."
Anonymous Sudan also claimed a DDoS attack that took down OpenAI's ChatGPT bot on Wednesday and other attacks that have impacted Microsoft's Outlook.com, OneDrive, and Azure Portal in June.
"Www.cloudflare.com is experiencing issues. The Cloudflare Dashboard is accessible through dash.cloudflare.com and APIs and all Cloudflare services are unaffected," it said.
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