2Captcha incident

Heavy DDoS

Minor Resolved View vendor source →

2Captcha experienced a minor incident on July 28, 2026 affecting Website and API and 1 more component, lasting 1h. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Jul 28, 2026, 07:50 PM UTC
Resolved
Jul 28, 2026, 08:50 PM UTC
Duration
1h
Detected by Pingoru
Jul 28, 2026, 07:50 PM UTC

Affected components

WebsiteAPIApps

Update timeline

  1. investigating Jul 28, 2026, 07:50 PM UTC

    Status: Investigating We are under heavy DDoS Affected components API (Full outage) Website (Full outage) Apps (Degraded performance)

  2. monitoring Jul 28, 2026, 08:40 PM UTC

    Status: Monitoring Dealt with the attack Affected components API (Operational) Website (Operational) Apps (Operational)

  3. resolved Jul 28, 2026, 08:50 PM UTC

    Status: Resolved Everything is up and running Affected components Website (Operational) Apps (Operational) API (Operational)