Ping Identity incident
Some MFA OTP emails delayed in North America
Ping Identity experienced a minor incident on January 24, 2026 affecting PingOne MFA and PingOne MFA and 1 more component, lasting 6h 10m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating Jan 24, 2026, 02:21 PM UTC
We see some delays in customers claiming MFA OTP emails, but we currently see no queueing or delays from our email provider. We've seen some general reports of email delivery issues with a third party email provider. We are continuing to investigate the issue.
- investigating Jan 24, 2026, 04:20 PM UTC
A higher than normal percentage of email OTPs continue to be delayed to addresses hosted by a specific third party email provider. While customers cannot reduce this delay, they can reduce the possibility of expired OTPs which would lead to failed authentications or registrations by temporarily increasing the "Passcode Lifetime" to 30 minutes for the Email OTP provider within the MFA Policy. If this change is made, take note of the previous value so that it can be restored.
- identified Jan 24, 2026, 04:21 PM UTC
This issue has been isolated to email addresses hosted by a specific third party email provider.
- identified Jan 24, 2026, 04:27 PM UTC
This issue has been isolated to email addresses hosted by a specific third party email provider.
- identified Jan 24, 2026, 05:10 PM UTC
We are continuing to monitor.
- monitoring Jan 24, 2026, 06:34 PM UTC
Email delivery services provided by our third-party have resumed normal operations. We will continue to monitor and provide updates as appropriate.
- resolved Jan 24, 2026, 08:31 PM UTC
This incident has been resolved.