Service Announcement: 8 April 2025

Start Time	Tuesday, 8 April 2025 14:45 (UTC+10)
End Time	Wednesday, 9 April 2025 03:23 (UTC+10)
Duration	12 hours, 38 minutes
Services affected	Whois
Description	Due to a configuration error, during this time whois Maintainer and IRT export files containing password hashes were made available to authenticated users who have signed the APNIC acceptable use policy. Whilst the strong hashing function and long random strings used make compromise extremely unlikely for most users, all exposed password hashes were reset as a precaution. For more details see the blog post at https://blog.apnic.net/2025/04/14/whois-data-incident-resolved-2/.

We apologize for the loss of facilities and any inconvenience caused. Should you require assistance in dealing with any problems arising from this outage, please contact the APNIC Helpdesk.