Proton experienced a major incident on September 10, 2025 affecting Free servers and Regular Servers and 1 more component, lasting 5h 17m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating Sep 10, 2025, 05:43 AM UTC
We are currently investigating this issue.
- investigating Sep 10, 2025, 06:26 AM UTC
We are continuing to investigate this issue.
- investigating Sep 10, 2025, 06:46 AM UTC
We are continuing to investigate this issue.
- monitoring Sep 10, 2025, 09:47 AM UTC
The root cause of the issue has now been identified, and a fix has been implemented. All users should now be able to reconnect. If you are still unable to do so, please log out, and then back in. Once done, everything should work as usual. For those of you interested in the details of this outage, we will update our Status page with a postmortem later today.
- resolved Sep 10, 2025, 11:01 AM UTC
This incident has been resolved.
- postmortem Sep 10, 2025, 11:59 AM UTC
**Incident Summary – Proton VPN VPN Servers Authentication Outage** **Date & Time:** 7:30 CEST – 10:30 CEST \(2025‑09‑10\) **Impact:** A subset of users experienced connection failures when connecting to Proton VPN servers. The issue prevented new sessions from being established. **Root Cause:** During a scheduled update to tighten our authentication policies, a manual configuration change was applied incorrectly. The erroneous setting unintentionally blocked valid credentials for a portion of the user base. **Resolution:** Once the misconfiguration was identified, the affected settings were rolled back and the authentication service was restored. All systems returned to normal operation by 10:30 CEST, and users were able to reconnect. **Status:** The incident is now closed. Services are fully operational, and no further impact is expected.