OpenAI confirms ChatGPT is down as logins and signups fail
Summary
ChatGPT experienced a major outage starting around 8 PM ET on August 19, preventing users worldwide from logging in, creating accounts, or accessing their saved conversations, with errors showing 'too many concurrent requests.' The outage also affected OpenAI's other services, including Codex (a coding platform) and the OpenAI API (a service developers use to access ChatGPT's capabilities through code).
Solution / Mitigation
OpenAI acknowledged the issues on its status page and stated it is 'working on implementing a mitigation,' though the specific details of that mitigation were not described in the source text.
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Original source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artificial-intelligence/openai-confirms-chatgpt-is-down-as-logins-and-signups-fail/
First tracked: August 20, 2026 at 02:00 AM
Classified by LLM (prompt v3) · confidence: 85%