The San Francisco internet services company's top customers include IBM, the text and chat app Discord and the Chinese internet company Baidu.

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"It’s DDoS protection for any box, container or VM that connects to the internet," the company announced on Thurday. "Whether it runs email, file transfer or a custom protocol, it can now get the full benefits of Cloudflare."

As a result of the bug, virtually any traffic that passed through Cloudflare could be public including emails, private messages, passwords and other private data.