OpenAI confirms ChatGPT is down as logins and signups fail
2026-08-20T01:23:21Z•d7367eb6990d18dc7c7b5565d532002e20ab91213a378500e49ac6635685a23f
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BleepingComputer security roundup covering major incidents and vulnerabilities, including active exploitation of a critical Windows IKE Extension RCE, Medusa ransomware attacks against more than 500 critical-infrastructure organizations, large-scale password spraying exploiting MFA gaps, Clop web shells targeting Windchill/FlexPLM, compromise of Dahua cameras, and significant healthcare, cloud-provider, and intellectual-property data breaches. The roundup also includes a ChatGPT outage and Windows Defender reliability issue.
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