Cloudflare DDoSed itself with React useEffect hook blunder

Cloudflare has confessed to a coding error using a React useEffect hook, notorious for being problematic if not handled ...
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Cloudflare accidentally DDoS'ed itself in dashboard update gone wrong

The incident, first spotted by Daniel Lockyer on X, was caused by a bug in the provider's dashboard, which led to continuous, ...
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Cloudflare Self-DoS Caused by Dashboard React Hook Misconfiguration

Cloudflare has determined that a bug in its dashboard software triggered an overload of its own backend systems on 12 September 2025, knocking its Tenant Service API offline and disrupting many of its ...