hCaptcha incident

Increased endpoint latency in some regions

Minor Resolved View vendor source →

hCaptcha experienced a minor incident on September 11, 2026 affecting Captcha API, lasting 16m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Sep 11, 2026, 02:04 PM UTC
Resolved
Sep 11, 2026, 02:20 PM UTC
Duration
16m
Detected by Pingoru
Sep 11, 2026, 02:04 PM UTC

Affected components

Captcha API

Update timeline

  1. investigating Sep 11, 2026, 02:04 PM UTC

    We are observing higher than expected latency at our edge in some regions, affecting 0.0175% of siteverify requests. Affected traffic is now being rerouted, and we expect latency to recover shortly.

  2. monitoring Sep 11, 2026, 02:12 PM UTC

    A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

  3. resolved Sep 11, 2026, 02:20 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.