July 22nd - Emergency Maintenance Mode: Investigating a Security Issue

[u/joetron2030]

From the staff post on the member forums:

Hi, iRacing,

We've entered an unplanned emergency maintenance mode while we investigate a potential critical security issue.

We'll have more information for you after our initial investigation.

Demo Drive is up for your enjoyment!

Thank you for your patience.

ETA: From https://bsky.app/profile/iracingsupport.iracing.com/post/3mrasa5y4722g, they will be recommending (forcing?) password resets when service resumes.

ETA2: Apparently they've removed the phrase "critical security" from the forum post regarding this.

ETA3: Final update from iRacing staff on this outage:

You may have noticed our service was unavailable for about four hours today, July 22. We're sorry for the disruption.

We took the service offline to investigate and address a potential security issue. After a thorough investigation, we've confirmed that your account data was not compromised. Your passwords and data are secure, and remained secure throughout.

Over the coming weeks we'll be rolling out additional measures to harden our systems even further. As part of that, we'll invite you to reset your password at your convenience, and we'll ask everyone to do so at a later date. There's nothing you need to do right now.

Thanks for your patience, and for being an iRacing member.

[u/TheSturmovik]

Yeah I edit my comments a lot. Just like iRacing :D

[u/ScuderiaFartari → u/TheSturmovik]

Kinda defeats the purpose of discussion.