A global outage struck internet infrastructure giant Cloudflare Inc (NYSE:NET) on Tuesday.

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Downdetector showed that reported issues crossed the 10,800 mark on Tuesday with 62% users reporting issues related to server connection, 28% related to website and 11% related to hosting.

Investors reacted negatively to the news, selling off Cloudflare stock and driving shares down more than 5% in premarket trading. Cloudflare shares were down about 3% at last check, according to Benzinga Pro.

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The outage knocked major platforms offline for users worldwide, disabling access to services including OpenAI's ChatGPT. The number of issues reported reached close to 2,000.

Elon Musk's social media platform X also faced disruptions, according to Downdetector. The number of issues reported reached close to 13,000 at the peak.

Cloudflare, which secures and manages traffic for roughly 20% of the web, attributed the failure to a "spike in unusual traffic" that began around 6:20 a.m. ET. The company quickly mobilized an "all hands on deck" response to investigate the errors and has since deployed a fix to restore service. OpenAI confirmed the impact on its status page, blaming the downtime for ChatGPT and its video tool Sora on a "third-party service provider."

NET Price Action: Cloudflare stock is trading lower by 3.60% to $194.93 at last check Tuesday, according to Benzinga Pro.

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