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Internet security giant Cloudflare announced that it lost 55% of all logs pushed to customers over a 3.5-hour period due to a bug in the log collection service on November 14, 2024. [...]

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[–] Rogue@feddit.uk 4 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

The actual source rather than blog spam: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-incident-on-november-14-2024-resulting-in-lost-logs/

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