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What took the Internet offline in Q3 2026

Cloudflare Blog·Oct 27, 2026 · 8:00 AM CT
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Cloudflare's quarterly review of Internet disruptions found that Q3 2026 outages were mostly caused by failures in the systems the Internet depends on, including power grid failures in Cuba, Honduras, Guam and Ukraine. Government-ordered shutdowns, led by exam-related blackouts in Iraq, were still the most frequent cause.

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