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Cloudflare says it lost 55% of logs pushed to customers for 3.5 hours (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

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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 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 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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A short temporary misconfiguration lasting just five minutes created a massive overload that took us several hours to fix and recover from. Because our backstops were not properly configured, the underlying systems became so overloaded that we could not interact with them normally. A full reset and restart was required.