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European customers report Oracle Cloud identity outage, Big Red is silent

(2025/05/19)


Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) experienced an outage in Europe earlier today, according to users and online metrics.

The Register understands that OCI's identity platform was down in parts of Europe around 0700 UTC this morning, even though Big Red's [1]official status page did not acknowledge the issue.

The Downdetector website, which records and confirms outage reports, [2]received a surge in reports of an OCI outage after 0800 UTC , peaking at 111 reports at about 0830 UTC, and continued to show reported problems through about 1400 UTC.

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The Register understands that at least the Germany Central (Frankfurt) region was affected, and attempts to failover to the Netherlands Northwest (Amsterdam) were not successful.

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Oracle did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Last month, Big Red denied [6]then admitted that its cloud security was compromised by a cyberattack.

[7]Users advised to review Oracle Java use as Big Red's year end approaches

[8]Oracle hopes talk of cloud data theft dies off. CISA just resurrected it for Easter

[9]The Reg translates the letter in which Oracle kinda-sorta tells customers it was pwned

[10]Oracle says its cloud was in fact compromised

Although Oracle publicly said " [11]there has been no breach of Oracle Cloud ," it [12]later spoke to at least two customers about the fallout of the security lapse .

Oracle later [13]wrote to customers alerting them about an intrusion into part of its public cloud empire, but maintained that OCI was untouched. Security experts reacted with a mix of ridicule and outrage.

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The focus of security reporting was on Oracle Cloud Classic, an earlier but still active generation of Oracle's cloud offering. It seems am attacker accessed and published user names from two obsolete servers that were not part of OCI.

The problem was serious enough to attract the attention of the US government's [15]Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) , which issued an alert. In mid-April, it advised Oracle users to make sure, in light of that theft, they were not embedding credentials potentially stolen from a login server into software and cloud resources. ®

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[1] https://ocistatus.oraclecloud.com/#/

[2] https://downdetector.co.uk/status/oracle-cloud/

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[6] https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/23/oracle_cloud_customers_keys_credentials/

[7] https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/09/users_advised_to_review_oracle_java_use/

[8] https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/18/oracle_cisa_advisory/

[9] https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/10/oracles_breach_letter/

[10] https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/08/oracle_cloud_compromised/

[11] https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/08/oracle_cloud_compromised/

[12] https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/23/oracle_cloud_customers_keys_credentials/

[13] https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/10/oracles_breach_letter/

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[15] https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/18/oracle_cisa_advisory/

[16] https://whitepapers.theregister.com/



Is big red silent ...

alain williams

because no one can login to diagnose or talk about the problem ?

Excused Boots

" later spoke to at least two customers about the fallout of the security lapse.”

So as many as three or four! WOW!

All your cloud

ecofeco

...are belong to us.

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