ChatGPT has been suffering from periodic outages recently. OpenAI, the company that created ChatGPT, has confirmed that they have been working to resolve "abnormal traffic patterns reflective of a DDoS attack." A threat actor known as Anonymous Sudan has claimed responsibility for the attack, claiming the political bias of the company is what drove them to act. OpenAI should have expanded on the cause or their actions to mitigate the issue, leaving many unanswered questions. It is still being determined whether they had enough resources allocated to prevent the DDoS attack or if they lacked specific mitigation tools. Attacks like these can easily be dismissed as casual outages or server maintenance. As long as no data is being exfiltrated and users are not at risk; companies might think avoiding reporting these attacks may be more beneficial. The bad press of being attacked may be worse than a few hours of disrupted service. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/openai- confirms-ddos-attacks-behind-ongoing-chatgpt-outages/