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Aug 18, 2026 · Operations

GitHub Outage Hits Global Users: Web and API Errors Near 20%

On August 17 2026, GitHub suffered a worldwide outage that pushed web‑experience and API error rates to about 20 % and caused up to 50 % failures in archive and raw repository downloads, prompting blue‑team recommendations for dependency risk management and business‑continuity planning.