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GitHub suffers eight-hour outage affecting Actions, APIs, and Copilot

📅 18 August 2026 at 12:33 UTC📰 Cyber InsiderView original source ↗
GitHub suffers eight-hour outage affecting Actions, APIs, and Copilot

GitHub suffered a widespread outage on August 17 that disrupted core services including its API, Actions, Pull Requests, Issues, Pages, Webhooks, and Copilot, with some repository downloads experiencing error rates of around 50%. The incident began at 1:40 p.m. UTC when GitHub said it was investigating reports of performance problems affecting some of its services. … The post GitHub suffers eight-hour outage affecting Actions, APIs, and Copilot appeared first on CyberInsider.

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🔍Threat Overview

GitHub suffered an eight-hour outage affecting core services, including API, Actions, and Copilot, with error rates reaching up to 50% for some repository downloads.

⚙️Technical Details
💥Impact Assessment
Severity: High
Who Is at Risk
Enterprise customers using GitHub services, including developers and organizations relying on GitHub for software development.
🛡️Recommended Actions
1Monitor GitHub status page for updates on service recovery
2Implement rate limiting or caching to mitigate impact of high traffic
3Review and update authentication token retries to prevent future authentication failures
📦Affected Products
GitHub APIGitHub ActionsGitHub Copilot

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