Bug causes data leak, no sign of hackers exploiting: Cloudflare

A bug in its software left hundreds of thousands of webpages hosted by Cloudflare Inc leaking encrypted personal data, but there was no sign yet the leak had been exploited by hackers, the Internet security firm said on Friday.

Cloudflare hosts six million websites, spreading them across the Internet to put them closer to customers while at the same time reducing their exposure to the so-called Distributed Denial of Service attacks that might knock them offline.

The data leak was attributable to a bug in the firm’s software that had been sending chunks of unrelated data to users’ browsers when they visited