Let's Encrypt Outage Disrupts Global Certificate Infrastructure

Let's Encrypt, the foundational Certificate Authority powering HTTPS for millions of websites, experienced widespread degraded performance affecting its core ACME API and portal services. The dual-datacenter outage disrupted critical certificate issuance and renewal operations for organizations worldwide. This incident underscores Let's Encrypt's indispensable role in global web security and the cascading risks when foundational internet infrastructure fails.