Incident report · read from OpenAI's status page

OpenAI incident: Issues with login, signup, and ads

Resolved after 53 m (1 Oct 2026, 18:46–19:39 UTC), impact major, affecting Login, Ads Manager and Ads API.

Timeline

1. 1 Oct 2026 at 18:46 UTC investigating

   We are investigating an issue affecting login and signup. We will share further updates as we learn more.

2. 1 Oct 2026 at 19:06 UTC investigating

   We are investigating issues affecting login, signup, and ads

3. 1 Oct 2026 at 19:17 UTC identified

   We have identified that users are experiencing login issues for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation.

4. 1 Oct 2026 at 19:26 UTC monitoring

   We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

5. 1 Oct 2026 at 19:39 UTC resolved

   All impacted services have now fully recovered.

Affected components

• ChatGPT · Login: partial outage for 53 m
• Ads Platform · Ads Manager: partial outage for 33 m
• Ads Platform · Ads API: partial outage for 33 m

What the crowd did

• 0 clicks, 2 zombies at their worst, 2 breaches, over 55 m — the siege in full

That is this site's own record of the crowd at OpenAI's gate, not anything OpenAI published.

Source

OpenAI's own report of this incident, on OpenAI's status page. This page is a record of OpenAI's own report; where the two disagree, theirs is right.

Last checked 30 Oct 2026 at 16:25 UTC.

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