Cloudflare Outage Briefly Knocks White House, Fed and Crypto Exchanges Offline
Cloudflare experienced another service disruption on Dec. 5 that briefly took many websites and apps offline, reportedly affecting government portals and multiple crypto platforms. The company resolved the issue in about 10 minutes, limiting visible downtime compared with the more severe outage on Nov. 18 that lasted significantly longer and drew widespread scrutiny.
The short interruption still underlines persistent risks from centralized infrastructure: even a ten-minute outage can interrupt trading, payment processing and public communications, and it raises fresh questions about operational resilience for exchanges and critical services. While markets showed limited immediate impact thanks to the fast recovery, the incident reinforces pressure on firms and regulators to improve contingency planning and diversify uptime dependencies.