Degradation of service in Japanese data center

Reported

JST: 2025-07-18 02:00CET*: 2025-07-17 19:00UTC: 2025-07-17 17:00EST*: 2025-07-17 13:00

End time

JST: 2025-07-19 03:00CET*: 2025-07-18 20:00UTC: 2025-07-18 18:00EST*: 2025-07-18 14:00

Site

SaaS JPN

Impact

Longer response times, and some timeouts

Status

Solved

*The time is adjusted for DST

Description

Several DDoS attack were performed on multiple websites with webReader implemented and indirectly caused performance degradation on ReadSpeaker’s data center services in Japan. Mitigations were put in place and functionality has been restored.

Published: July 18, 2025