Orca Security incident

Elevated Errors and Delays in GCP Account Scanning

Minor Resolved View vendor source →

Orca Security experienced a minor incident on August 20, 2026 affecting Orca Scanner Engine and Orca Scanner Engine and 1 more component, lasting 1h 27m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Aug 20, 2026, 07:11 PM UTC
Resolved
Aug 20, 2026, 08:38 PM UTC
Duration
1h 27m
Detected by Pingoru
Aug 20, 2026, 07:11 PM UTC

Affected components

Orca Scanner EngineOrca Scanner EngineOrca Scanner EngineOrca Scanner EngineOrca Scanner EngineOrca Scanner Engine

Update timeline

  1. identified Aug 20, 2026, 07:11 PM UTC

    Google Cloud has published a status update indicating they are investigating an issue causing timeouts, service degradations, errors, and elevated latencies across multiple products. As a result, Orca scanning for GCP accounts may experience delays, which could lead to delayed scan results for the duration of this incident. https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/utF3FMFdQfwBzJcGG6vf

  2. monitoring Aug 20, 2026, 08:17 PM UTC

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

  3. resolved Aug 20, 2026, 08:38 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.