crates.io: Major incident: DoS Attack
Summary
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What changed
Struck in red is what crates.io removed; blue is what they added. Muted text is unchanged context.
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After: DoS Attack
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After: major
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After: resolved
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After: 2026-07-11 14:22 UTC
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After: 2026-07-11 15:42 UTC
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After: crates.io
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After: We are experiencing what looks like a coordinated DoS attack against our API servers. We are monitoring the situation and are assessing our reaction. Crate downloads and dependency resolution through the sparse/git index should not be affected.
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After: We are continuing to investigate this issue.
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After: We have deployed countermeasures and our servers are largely back to normal again. We keep monitoring the situation. If you encounter any issues please let us know!
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After: This incident has been resolved. Big thanks to Fastly for providing their CDN services and their fast response time!
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History of this incident
Saturday, July 11
1 incident change
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DoS Attackthis change