BITBUCKET SERVICES “HARD DOWN” DUE TO MAJOR WORLDWIDE OUTAGE

Summary from the TLDR InfoSec newsletter

Atlassian reported a major outage affecting Atlassian Bitbucket Cloud customers. Impacted services included the website, API, git via HTTPS and SSH, Webhooks, source downloads, pipelines, git LFS, email delivery, purchasing and licensing, and signup. Bitbucket has managed to restore services and disclosed that the issue was due to saturated database connections. A full postmortem will be published.