Let's Encrypt experienced a minor incident on October 12, 2026 affecting acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org (Production) and portal.letsencrypt.org (Production) (High Assurance Datacenter 2) and 1 more component, lasting 5h 57m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- identified Oct 12, 2026, 05:38 PM UTC
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- identified Oct 12, 2026, 05:38 PM UTC
We've identified an issue that's disrupting certificate issuance in production. We're working on it, and expect to resolve it quickly.
- monitoring Oct 12, 2026, 05:47 PM UTC
Issuance is back to normal. We're closely monitoring our service, and will continue to investigate and fix the cause of this disruption.
- monitoring Oct 12, 2026, 05:47 PM UTC
Issuance is back to normal. We're closely monitoring our service, and will continue to investigate and fix the cause of this disruption.
- resolved Oct 12, 2026, 11:36 PM UTC
We've resolved the issuance disruption.