Outage in OpenAI ChatGPT

Increased Authentication Failures Affecting Some Users

Resolved Minor

March 01, 2026 - Started about 1 month ago - Lasted about 20 hours

Incident Report

Summary AI Generated

ChatGPT experienced increased authentication failures that prevented some users from logging in for 20 hours. The issue affected both the main ChatGPT service and the login system. The team applied a mitigation and monitored the recovery to resolve the authentication problems.

We are investigating the issue for the listed services.

Components affected

OpenAI ChatGPT ChatGPT OpenAI ChatGPT Login

Latest Updates ( sorted recent to last )

MONITORING about 1 month ago - at 03/01/2026 07:29AM

We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

INVESTIGATING about 1 month ago - at 03/01/2026 06:10AM

We are investigating the issue for the listed services.

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