Degradation of service in Japanese data center

Reported

JST: 2025-06-13 01:00CET*: 2025-06-12 18:00UTC: 2025-06-12 16:00EST*: 2025-06-12 12:00

End time

JST: 2025-06-13 02:00CET*: 2025-06-12 19:00UTC: 2025-06-12 17:00EST*: 2025-06-12 13:00

Site

SaaS JPN

Impact

Longer response times, and some timeouts

Status

Solved

*The time is adjusted for DST

Description

A DDoS attack was performed on a website with webReader implemented and indirectly caused performance degradation on ReadSpeaker’s data center services in Japan. Mitigations have been put in place and the functionality has been fully restored.

Published: June 12, 2025