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| 2016 || September || || "From September 2016 until February 2017, a major Cloudflare bug (nicknamed {{w|Cloudbleed}}) leaked sensitive data, including passwords and authentication tokens, from customer websites by sending extra data in response to web requests."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/23/major-cloudflare-bug-leaked-sensitive-data-from-customers-websites/|title=Major Cloudflare bug leaked sensitive data from customers' websites|last=Conger|first=Kate|date=February 23, 2017|website=|publisher=[[TechCrunch]]|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|accessdate=August 22, 2019}}</ref> "The leaks resulted from a {{w|buffer overflow}} which occurred, according to analysis by Cloudflare, on approximately 1 in every 3,300,000 HTTP requests."<ref name="2017Inc">{{cite news|url=http://www.inc.com/joseph-steinberg/why-you-can-ignore-calls-to-change-your-passwords-after-todays-massive-password-.html|title=Why You Can Ignore Calls To Change Your Passwords After Today's Massive Password Leak Announcement|last=Steinberg|first=Joseph|date=February 24, 2017|work=[[w:Inc. (magazine)|Inc.]]|accessdate=February 24, 2017|authorlink=}}</ref><ref name="USA Today">{{cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/talkingtech/2017/02/28/cloudfare-cloudbleed-bug-change-your-passwords/98519794/|title=Cloudfare bug: Yes, you should change your passwords|last1=Molina|first1=Brett|date=February 28, 2017|work={{w|USA Today}}|accessdate=March 1, 2017|publisher=}}</ref>
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| 2016 || September 29 || Product || Cloudflare launches its Rate Limiting, which allows customers to rate limit, shape or block traffic based on the number of requests per second per {{w|IP}}, [[w:HTTP cookie|cookie]], or {{w|authentication token}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=Control your traffic at the edge with Cloudflare |url=https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-traffic/ |website=blog.cloudflare.com |accessdate=13 October 2019}}</ref>
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| 2016 || December || Acquisition || "In December 2016, Cloudflare acquired Eager, with the view of upgrading Cloudflare's Apps platform to allow for drag-and-drop installation of third-party apps onto Cloudflare-enabled sites."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://venturebeat.com/2016/12/13/cloudflare-acquires-app-platform-eager-will-sunset-service-in-q1-2017/|title=Cloudflare acquires app platform Eager, will sunset service in Q1 2017|last1=Yeung|first1=Ken|date=December 13, 2016|website={{w|VentureBeat}}|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|accessdate=December 28, 2016}}</ref>
