Widespread Cloudflare Outage Blocks NJ Transit, ChatGPT Websites

ChatGPT, social-media platform X and NJ Transit were among the websites blocking users’ access on Tuesday as the web security firm Cloudflare Inc. worked to address a widespread, worldwide networking outage.

Cloudflare was investigating an issue that “potentially impacts multiple customers,” the San Francisco-based company said on its website. The same page shows Cloudflare had been experiencing issues with a customer support portal, and had been scheduled to conduct scheduled maintenance in some areas earlier in the day. At one point, Cloudflare’s own outage status website wasn’t loading.

About an hour into the disruption, Cloudflare said it was “seeing ...