BlogBluesky Service Interruption Update (Morning of April 17)

Bluesky Service Interruption Update (Morning of April 17)

April 17, 2026

by Bluesky Team

The application has remained stable since approximately 9 PM PDT, April 16 despite ongoing Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks. We have not seen any evidence of unauthorized access to private user data. We will provide a further update by end of day.

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