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Anthropic Confirms Claude Service Disruption on August 16, 2026 | service-disruption

On August 16, 2026, Anthropic experienced a service disruption affecting Claude.ai, platform.claude.com, the Claude API, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork, with a…

Published on MyPrivateClaw

Aug 17, 2026, 8:27 AM UTC

Coverage date

Aug 16, 2026

Last updated

Aug 17, 2026, 8:27 AM UTC

News summary

The incident began at 21:58 UTC on August 16, 2026 with authentication failures affecting some users on Claude.ai, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork. At approximately 22:07 UTC, the disruption expanded to include degraded performance on Claude.ai and platform.claude.com. By 22:34 UTC on August 16, 2026, the incident was resolved and all services were restored. Anthropic has not publicly disclosed the root cause of this service disruption.