FutureLearn experienced a major incident on January 28, 2021 affecting www.futurelearn.com, lasting 13m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
www.futurelearn.com
Update timeline
- identified Jan 28, 2021, 07:25 AM UTC
At 06:47 (UTC) we were alerted to a huge amount of traffic being flooded to the site. This appears to be malicious traffic sent in an extremely high volume. We have taken steps to protect against the stability of the site.
- monitoring Jan 28, 2021, 07:32 AM UTC
The steps taken appear to have helped. We are monitoring the situation.
- resolved Jan 28, 2021, 07:38 AM UTC
This incident has now been resolved.