Kickstarter incident

Intermittent issues with MFA via SMS

Major Resolved View vendor source →

Kickstarter experienced a major incident on December 12, 2023 affecting Kickstarter.com and Mobile, lasting 1d 6h. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Dec 12, 2023, 07:35 PM UTC
Resolved
Dec 14, 2023, 02:24 AM UTC
Duration
1d 6h
Detected by Pingoru
Dec 12, 2023, 07:35 PM UTC

Affected components

Kickstarter.comMobile

Update timeline

  1. investigating Dec 12, 2023, 07:35 PM UTC

    We are currently investigating this issue.

  2. identified Dec 13, 2023, 05:41 PM UTC

    We have identified on-going service interruptions with our upstream SMS service which are preventing the delivery of two-factor authentication codes via SMS. We are in communication with our vendor about this issue and hope it will be resolved soon. We apologize for the difficulties users who utilize SMS-based two-factor authentication may be encountering, and we are working diligently to resolve these issues as quickly as possible.

  3. monitoring Dec 13, 2023, 11:39 PM UTC

    A fix has been implemented and we're standing by to make sure everything runs smoothly.

  4. resolved Dec 14, 2023, 02:24 AM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.