OpenAI

entries: 31
incidents: 30
shutdowns: 1
years: 2023–2026
Most recent: Damaging the task environment to trigger a reset, 2026-10-06.

When was the most recent OpenAI incident?

The most recent documented OpenAI incident on postmortem.io is "Damaging the task environment to trigger a reset", from Oct 6, 2026.

How many OpenAI incidents are documented on postmortem.io?

postmortem.io has 31 documented OpenAI incidents, spanning 2023 to 2026.

How many OpenAI incidents were there in 2026?

29 incidents from OpenAI are documented for 2026.

What are the most common causes of OpenAI incidents?

The most frequently tagged themes across OpenAI's incidents are: ai-agent, ai-safety, security-incident, misalignment.

31 entries from OpenAI · newest first

2026-10-06Incident
Damaging the task environment to trigger a reset
OpenAIai-agent, ai-safety, reward-hacking +2 more tags
company blog
2026-10-03Incident
Suppressing misalignment monitoring alerts and disabling misalignment monitoring
OpenAIsecurity-incident, ai-agent, ai-safety +3 more tags
company blog
2026-10-01Incident
Issues with login, signup, and ads
OpenAIoutage, authentication, storage +3 more tags
status page
2026-09-30Incident
How we will do better for Australia
OpenAIsecurity-incident, ai-agent, ai-safety +4 more tags
company blog
2026-09-29Incident
Elevated errors across ChatGPT, Codex, and the API including the Agents API
OpenAIoutage, deployment, feature-flag +4 more tags
status page
2026-09-25Incident
Issues with Codex
OpenAIoutage, authentication, credentials +3 more tags
status page
2026-09-20Incident
An agent used DNS to reach an external chatbot
OpenAIsecurity-incident, ai-agent, ai-safety +3 more tags
company blog
2026-09-03Incident
Elevated errors across ChatGPT and Codex
OpenAIoutage, routing, configuration-change +3 more tags
status page
2026-08-26Incident
The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead
OpenAIsecurity-incident, ai-agent, ai-safety +7 more tags
company blog
2026-08-19Incident
Chatgpt.com is down - all signups and logins are down as of right now
OpenAIoutage, authentication, deployment +2 more tags
status page
2026-07-21Incident
OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident during model evaluation
OpenAIsecurity-incident, ai-agent, remote-code-execution +3 more tags
company blog
2026-07-21Incident
Issues with logins and signups
OpenAIoutage, authentication, database +3 more tags
status page
2026-07-18Incident
Self-generated prompt injections in compaction summaries
OpenAIai-agent, ai-safety, misalignment +2 more tags
company blog
2026-07-09Shutdown
Evolving Atlas into ChatGPT for browser-based agentic work
OpenAIshutdown, product-shutdown, ai +2 more tags
company blog
2026-06-27Incident
Self-replicating prompt injections exist
OpenAIai-agent, ai-safety, prompt-injection +2 more tags
company blog
2026-06-26Incident
Using a funded test cryptocurrency wallet without authorization
OpenAIsecurity-incident, ai-agent, ai-safety +3 more tags
company blog
2026-06-19Incident
Obtaining public statistics with disallowed requests
OpenAIsecurity-incident, ai-agent, ai-safety +4 more tags
company blog
2026-06-17Incident
Accessing and changing internal systems during dashboard research
OpenAIsecurity-incident, ai-agent, ai-safety +2 more tags
company blog
2026-06-17Incident
Retrieving server secrets and bypassing authorization on a government statistics website
OpenAIsecurity-incident, ai-agent, ai-safety +3 more tags
company blog
2026-06-16Incident
Circumventing internet restrictions through an external browser
OpenAIsecurity-incident, ai-agent, ai-safety +2 more tags
company blog
2026-06-16Incident
Sending disallowed web requests and reaching a public file service
OpenAIsecurity-incident, ai-agent, ai-safety +2 more tags
company blog
2026-05-30Incident
Encouraging deception in compaction summaries
OpenAIai-agent, ai-safety, misalignment +3 more tags
company blog
2026-05-27Incident
Exposing a GitHub token in a public repository
OpenAIsecurity-incident, ai-agent, ai-safety +5 more tags
company blog
2026-05-22Incident
Preparing for a restart after reading Slack
OpenAIai-agent, ai-safety, monitoring +1 more tags
company blog
2026-05-16Incident
Command injecting a reference tool to copy a source file
OpenAIsecurity-incident, ai-agent, ai-safety +4 more tags
company blog
2026-05-15Incident
Signing up for disposable emails and searching GitHub for leaked API keys
OpenAIsecurity-incident, ai-agent, ai-safety +5 more tags
company blog
2026-05-08Incident
Unsanctioned Artifactory writes and cross-sample communication
OpenAIsecurity-incident, ai-agent, ai-safety +4 more tags
company blog
2026-04-14Incident
Unauthorized communication via temporary file hosting services
OpenAIsecurity-incident, ai-agent, ai-safety +4 more tags
company blog
2026-03-27Incident
Reaching an internal EDA host through a reference tool
OpenAIsecurity-incident, ai-agent, ai-safety +4 more tags
company blog
2025-10-22Incident
Uploading files to the internet in order to cite them
OpenAIsecurity-incident, ai-agent, ai-safety +3 more tags
company blog
2023-03-20Incident
March 20 ChatGPT outage: Here's what happened
OpenAIoutage, data-breach, redis +4 more tags
company blog

When was the most recent OpenAI incident?

How many OpenAI incidents are documented on postmortem.io?

How many OpenAI incidents were there in 2026?

What are the most common causes of OpenAI incidents?

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