SavvyCal incident

Massive spam attack

Minor Resolved View vendor source →

SavvyCal experienced a minor incident on November 5, 2024, lasting —. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Nov 05, 2024, 03:38 PM UTC
Resolved
Nov 05, 2024, 03:38 PM UTC
Duration
Detected by Pingoru
Nov 05, 2024, 03:38 PM UTC

Update timeline

  1. resolved Nov 05, 2024, 03:38 PM UTC

    Type: Incident Duration: 4 hours and 18 minutes Affected Components: App Nov 5, 15:38:14 GMT+0 - Investigating - SavvyCal is experiencing a distributed attack from spammers seeking to abuse our email sending infrastructure. We are currently working to mitigate the attack and send emails that have been delayed. Nov 5, 16:41:14 GMT+0 - Identified - Between the hours of \~4:40am and 9:30am (Central Time), emails that SavvyCal attempted to send to users were paused by our email sending provider. We are now processing the backlog of these delayed emails. Nov 5, 18:52:18 GMT+0 - Monitoring - Out of the abundance of caution, user registration is still disabled while we test out our abuse prevention mechanisms. Nov 5, 19:56:43 GMT+0 - Resolved - This incident has been resolved.