Notable Quotes
Paraphrased from reporting: Knecht confirmed that the failure was caused by a change in Cloudflare’s Web Application Firewall request parsing logic and that the company had fully restored operations, stressing that it was not the result of a cyberattack.
“In short, a latent bug in a service underpinning our bot mitigation capability started to crash after a routine configuration change we made. That cascaded into a broad degradation of our network and other services. This was not an attack.” (Dane Knecht, Feb. 4, 2026)[2]
“I won't mince words: earlier today we failed our customers and the broader Internet when a problem in [Cloudflare's] network impacted large amounts of traffic that rely on us." (Dane Knecht on X, Feb. 4, 2026)[4]