Font Awesome experienced a major incident on July 29, 2021 affecting fontawesome.com, lasting 7h 2m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating Jul 29, 2021, 08:28 AM UTC
We are currently investigating this issue.
- identified Jul 29, 2021, 08:45 AM UTC
From our monitoring, the site is under a DDoS attack. We're working on some steps to mitigate now.
- monitoring Jul 29, 2021, 09:40 AM UTC
We've gone ahead and added Cloudflare as the CDN in front of the site. They should be able to catch and mitigate another DDoS attack. As this change was a bit ahead of schedule, if you run into any issues being able to access the site send us an email [email protected].
- resolved Jul 29, 2021, 03:30 PM UTC
This mitigation is looking good for the moment. We'll continue to watch this and work with Cloudflare to keep these types of attacks proactively shut-down before they gather steam in the future.