Anthropic Hit by Outage Across Multiple Claude Models, Thousands Report Issues

On Tuesday, June 23, 2026, Anthropic suffered an outage that raised error rates across multiple models including Claude Opus 4.8, disrupting major services such as claude.ai, the API and Claude Code. According to the company's official status page, it began investigating around 14:19 UTC and identified the cause and applied a fix by 14:25 UTC. Elevated error rates persisted from roughly 14:08 to 15:33 UTC (7:08 to 8:33 a.m. US Pacific time). Around 16:44 UTC the company reported that success rates had broadly returned to normal, moving into a monitoring phase after the fix at 18:32 UTC, before the incident was ultimately marked resolved.