Cloudfare down, Dec. 5 -- Cloudflare faced a major outage on Friday that disrupted online services worldwide, hitting trading platforms such as Zerodha, Angel One, and Groww. Users were unable to log in, execute trades, or view live market data as backend systems and APIs dependent on Cloudflare failed to connect.

The company reported an "internal service degradation," which triggered widespread connectivity issues across multiple regions and industries.

Zerodha confirmed the disruption, explaining that "due to a cross-platform downtime on Cloudflare, Kite is currently unavailable," and urged clients to use the Kite WhatsApp backup to manage trades while the issue was investigated.

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