Phishing URL Blocking Failure Leads to Cloudflare Service Disruptions

Yesterday, Cloudflare attempted to block an unintentional phishing URL within its R2 object storage platform, causing an outage that affected multiple services for nearly an hour. The outage was caused by an attempt to prevent spammers from accessing the URL.

Its scalable and cost-efficient object storage service is comparable to Amazon’s S3 and offers seamless integration into Cloudflare’s ecosystem. 

As an S3-compatible storage service, the platform enables users to store their data across multiple locations, ensures data availability and reliability, and offers cost-free data retrievals, ensuring users can access their data without worries.

A Cloudflare employee responded to an abuse report regarding a phishing URL hosted on its R2 platform, which caused the outage which occurred during the blackout. 

Inadvertently, the employee disabled the entire R2 Gateway service instead of restricting access to the specific endpoint, resulting in a significant service disruption.

To prevent phishing URLs on the R2 platform, it accidentally resulted in a widespread outage of several Cloudflare services for almost an hour due to an attempt to block a phishing URL on the platform. 

Object storage solution Cloudflare R2 is no-egress-fee and has the same functionality as Amazon S3 and enables free data retrieval as well as S3 compatibility, replication, and seamless integration with other Cloudflare ser

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