Security News > 2021 > January > Slack suffers its first massive outage of 2021

1/4/. As everyone gets back to work after the New Year holiday, Slack brings in 2021 with a massive outage affecting users worldwide.

Starting at approximately 10 AM EST, Slack suffered an outage where users cannot connect, messages cannot be sent and received, and channel history cannot be retrieved.

When the outage initially occurred, Slack stated it was affecting messaging and causing connection issues.

Slack has restored some of the functionality of the Slack client and can connect again to servers and receive and send messages.

Jan 4, 1:00 PM EST. While the issue is largely still ongoing, we believe some customers may see improvement in connecting to Slack after a refresh.

Jan 4, 11:20 AM EST. We're still investigating the ongoing connectivity issues with Slack.

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