Cloudflare software bug causes six-hour disruption
A software bug degraded Cloudflare services for about 6 hours.
- Service
- Cloudflare
- Date
- 20 February 2026
- Cause
- Software bug
- Duration
- 6.1 hours
- Status
- resolved
- Severity
- major
- Region
- Global
- Source
- WPBV outage archive ↗
Cite this
Nuffield Consulting, “Cloudflare software bug causes six-hour disruption”, The Daily Tech Wire outage & breach log, 20 Feb 2026. https://techwire.nuffieldconsulting.com/incidents/2026-02-20-cloudflare-outage/ (retrieved 15 Nov 2026).
This entry summarises public reporting. Please also cite the original source: WPBV outage archive, https://wpbvradio.com/outages.
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