University of Reading incident

Web Services Offline (Global Vulnerability)

Resolved after 1 day 2 hours, affecting Research Web Pages - WordPress and Research Web Pages - cPanel and 1 more, on October 21, 2026.

monitoring Oct 22, 2026, 03:58 PM UTC

The websites on this notice are remediated and so are no longer affected.

Started: Oct 21, 2026, 02:07 PM UTC
Resolved: Oct 22, 2026, 04:10 PM UTC
Duration: 1d 2h
Detected by Pingoru: Oct 21, 2026, 02:07 PM UTC

Affected components

Research Web Pages - WordPressResearch Web Pages - cPanelModule pages: www.reading.ac.uk/modulesUniversity of Reading website (reading.ac.uk)UoR Malaysia websitePersonal WebpagesUser Web Pages - cPanelStaff PortalStaff Searchblogs.reading.ac.uk

Update timeline

investigating Oct 21, 2026, 02:07 PM UTC

Due to the announcement of a Global Vulnerability, all web services are currently being assessed and may be switched off whilst we address this. **This is a global vulnerability that has been announced this afternoon. A further meeting is planned in DTS for 4pm where a clearer picture will be known. We'd like to apologise for any inconvenience.
investigating Oct 22, 2026, 08:13 AM UTC

Incident update: Updating list of websites/services which we know are unavailable
investigating Oct 22, 2026, 08:58 AM UTC

Updating known pages - not an exhaustive list.
investigating Oct 22, 2026, 03:53 PM UTC
monitoring Oct 22, 2026, 03:58 PM UTC

The websites on this notice are remediated and so are no longer affected.
resolved Oct 22, 2026, 04:10 PM UTC

No longer affected

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