Cloudflare slips in pre‑market after brief outage hits Zoom, LinkedIn and Fortnite

Cloudflare — the internet‑infrastructure giant — saw its shares drop significantly in pre‑market trading on December 5, after a short outage disrupted access to several major online services. The outage affected platforms like Zoom, LinkedIn, and Fortnite (among others), briefly knocking them offline before the issue was resolved. According to Cloudflare, the disruption was caused by a firewall‑related internal configuration change, not by a cyberattack — though the outage did affect its dashboard and additional APIs. The downtime lasted only a few minutes, but given Cloudflare’s central role in web infrastructure, the ripple effect was felt widely. The timing — coming just weeks after a previous outage impacting services such as ChatGPT and other major platforms — renewed concerns about the reliability risks of large centralized cloud service providers. For its part, Cloudflare says the issue has been fixed, and all affected services have been restored. The company is reportedly investigating the precise changes that triggered the outage, and assessing how to prevent similar problems going forward. #Cloudflare #InternetOutage #ZoomDown #WebReliability #SlimScan #GrowthStocks #CANSLIM