Sectigo incident

Sectigo reporting an issue with our private CA backend

Major Resolved View vendor source →

Sectigo experienced a major incident on May 18, 2026 affecting Certificate Issuing Platforms and Certificate Issuing Platforms (Private CA), lasting 1d. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
May 18, 2026, 05:48 PM UTC
Resolved
May 19, 2026, 06:20 PM UTC
Duration
1d
Detected by Pingoru
May 18, 2026, 05:48 PM UTC

Affected components

Certificate Issuing PlatformsCertificate Issuing Platforms (Private CA)

Update timeline

  1. investigating May 18, 2026, 05:48 PM UTC

    Sectigo is currently experiencing an outage affecting our Private CA backend. Our engineering team is actively investigating the issue. We apologize for the inconvenience and will provide updates as soon as more information becomes available. At this time, private certificate issuance is unavailable.

  2. monitoring May 18, 2026, 07:10 PM UTC

    The issue has been identified and resolved. Our teams are continuing to monitor the situation. Thank you for your patience. We will keep you posted if we encounter any further issues.