OpenAI Confirms DDoS Attack Causes ChatGPT Service Outages
OpenAI reveals that ongoing ChatGPT outages stem from a targeted DDoS attack. The company states that no customer information is compromised during the incident.
OpenAI confirms that ongoing outages affecting ChatGPT result from a targeted distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. The company detects abnormal traffic patterns that disrupt services for users, many of whom continue to see error messages. OpenAI assures the public that no customer information suffers compromise during this cyberattack.
The disruption impacts a massive user base that relies heavily on the platform. Over 92% of Fortune 500 companies currently use ChatGPT across sectors like finance, law, and education. The outage also affects more than two million developers who depend on the OpenAI API to build their own software applications.
This cyberattack follows closely after OpenAI's highly publicized first in-person developer event. During Monday's event, the company celebrates reaching 100 million weekly active users and unveils its newest AI model, GPT-4 Turbo. OpenAI engineers continue to work diligently to mitigate the malicious traffic and restore full platform stability.