Current answer
hCaptcha experienced a minor incident: Increased siteverify latency in some regions. ServiceAlert observed recovery on Sep 11, 2026.
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Incident Lifecycle
Affected Components
Captcha API
Incident Timeline
Monitoring
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
Sep 11, 2026 at 2:12 PM UTC
Investigating
We are observing higher than expected latency at our edge in some regions, affecting 0.0175% of siteverify requests. Affected traffic is now being rerouted, and we expect latency to recover shortly.
Sep 11, 2026 at 2:04 PM UTC
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