Cloudflare Confirms Recent 1.1.1.1 DNS Outage Caused by BGP Attack or Hijack

Cloudflare’s widely used 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver service experienced a significant 62-minute global outage on July 14, 2025, affecting millions of users worldwide from 21:52 UTC to 22:54 UTC. Contrary to initial speculation, the company has confirmed that the outage was caused by an internal configuration error rather than a BGP attack, though a coincidentalBGP hijackby Tata Communications India (AS4755) was observed during the incident. Cloudflare Recent 1.1.1.1 Outage The root cause of the outage...