OpenAI confirms ChatGPT outage as users report errors
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Source: BleepingComputerAugust 31, 2026
Summary
ChatGPT Work experienced a partial outage starting August 31 at 11:04 AM ET, causing elevated latency (slow response times) and errors that prevented users from starting or continuing tasks, with Plus subscription users particularly affected. OpenAI acknowledged the issue on its status page and stated it was working on a mitigation, though the outage remained ongoing as of 12:02 PM ET.
Classification
Attack SophisticationTrivial
Impact (CIA+S)
availability
AI Component TargetedInference
Affected Vendors
OpenAI
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Original source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artificial-intelligence/openai-confirms-chatgpt-outage-as-users-report-errors/
First tracked: August 31, 2026 at 02:01 PM
Classified by LLM (prompt v3) · confidence: 85%