ChangesOpenAIAuthentication errors for some users
OpenAI: Incident silently edited: Authentication errors for some users
Summary pending. The diff below shows exactly what changed.
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History of this incident
Wednesday, October 21
1 rewrite
- Normal progressEdited by the vendor
Authentication errors for some usersthis change
Tuesday, October 20
1 incident change
- OutageMajor incident
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Incident silently edited: Authentication errors for some users on OpenAI’s status page, changed 2026-10-21 23:13 UTC (change 2 of 2).
- Title
- Incident silently edited: Authentication errors for some users
- Vendor
- OpenAI
- Date
- URL
- https://rewindex.com/change/r0774f5a5aa35d1