# Bitbucket: Users occasionally able to mention users outside the workspace on a private repository

> Bitbucket status incident “Users occasionally able to mention users outside the workspace on a private repository” on 2021-05-28: impact minor (vendor’s label), 0 min, 1 update(s). Archived by Rewindex.

Canonical: https://rewindex.com/company/bitbucket/incidents/43px69wb3ftx
Last updated: 2021-05-28T18:00:00Z

- Impact (vendor’s label): minor
- Status: resolved
- Started: 2021-05-28 18:00 UTC · Resolved: 2021-05-28 18:00 UTC · Duration: 0 min
- Updates: 1
- [Vendor status page: https://bitbucket.status.atlassian.com/incidents/43px69wb3ftx](https://bitbucket.status.atlassian.com/incidents/43px69wb3ftx)
- [Company: Bitbucket](https://rewindex.com/company/bitbucket.md)

## Timeline of updates

- **resolved** 2021-05-28 18:00 UTC: We received reports today that users were sometimes able to mention other users on pull request comments from outside the workspaces of private repositories. This issue has already been resolved, but we are creating this incident for transparency with the intention of providing a more detailed description of what went wrong and how we resolved the issue in the postmortem for this incident. The good news is that we have determined this issue did not result in any unauthorized access to sensitive data. This will be explained in greater detail in the postmortem momentarily.

_From the vendor’s published history: only the final update text is available for incidents before Rewindex began polling this page._

## Cite this

Status incident (vendor impact label: minor) posted by Bitbucket, started 2021-05-28 18:00 UTC, resolved after 0 min, 1 update(s).

- Canonical URL: https://rewindex.com/company/bitbucket/incidents/43px69wb3ftx
- Citation: Bitbucket, “Users occasionally able to mention users outside the workspace on a private repository” (2021-05-28 18:00 UTC). Archived by Rewindex: https://rewindex.com/company/bitbucket/incidents/43px69wb3ftx (CC BY 4.0).
- Markdown link: `[Bitbucket: Users occasionally able to mention users outside the workspace on a private repository (2021-05-28)](https://rewindex.com/company/bitbucket/incidents/43px69wb3ftx)`


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