Major incident

The Rust Programming Language: DoS Attack

Affected: crates.io

Current status of The Rust Programming Language: Operational — live The Rust Programming Language status

Timeline

1. Jul 11, 2026, 14:22 UTC
   investigating
   We are experiencing what looks like a coordinated DoS attack against our API servers. We are monitoring the situation and are assessing our reaction. Crate downloads and dependency resolution through the sparse/git index should not be affected.
2. Jul 11, 2026, 14:22 UTC
   investigating
   We are continuing to investigate this issue.
3. Jul 11, 2026, 15:06 UTC
   monitoring
   We have deployed countermeasures and our servers are largely back to normal again. We keep monitoring the situation. If you encounter any issues please let us know!
4. Jul 11, 2026, 15:42 UTC
   resolved
   This incident has been resolved. Big thanks to Fastly for providing their CDN services and their fast response time!

Updates as published by The Rust Programming Language (original).