mailprotector Outage History

This morning, a third-party package repository used by our virus scanning infrastructure experienced an outage following an attack on its systems. Because our virus scanning instances rely on this repository at startup to pull the latest files and configurations, affected instances were unable to start. This reduced the capacity of our virus-scanning cluster below demand. When a virus scan cannot complete, our system quarantines the email as a precaution. As a result, emails processed during this window were quarantined rather than delivered to inboxes. No emails were lost. Affected emails can be released from quarantine by users or admins. Resolution The virus scanning cluster has been reconfigured to pull packages directly from the source repository, eliminating the dependency on the third-party intermediary. Monitoring and alerting thresholds have also been updated to surface this class of issue more quickly in the future. The issue is fully resolved.

This incident has been resolved.

An update released at approximately 2:00 PM ET today was designed to improve protection against brand impersonation. It behaved more aggressively than intended, holding and jailing legitimate emails, particularly those with signatures containing social media links. The update was rolled back at approximately 2:50 PM ET. This issue is resolved. Actions taken to remediate after rollback: - Inbound emails delivered to Junk have been reprocessed to ensure appropriate risk and moved to the Inbox. - Released jailed emails; they may still land in Junk if the sender is new or carries a medium risk level. - Outgoing emails that were held have been released. No action needed.