Northflank - Status (Security Incident)

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Security incident

Identified Major outage Started about 11 hours ago

• Update October 30, 2026 at 11:38 PM

Users have reported unauthorised use of AI API keys supplied to the Northflank platform.

If you have not already rotated your user-provided secrets stored in Northflank, please do so immediately. Revoke existing credentials with their issuing providers, generate replacements, and update the affected secrets and workloads in Northflank. Review your AI provider usage and billing logs for unexpected activity, and report any suspicious usage to Northflank support and the relevant provider.

These reports may be consistent with the broader pattern of attacks targeting AI credentials. Similar IP addresses are contained in this article Wiz’s “Black October” report.

• Update October 30, 2026 at 7:28 PM

Our investigation is ongoing. We have no further confirmed findings to share at this time.

Our guidance remains unchanged: assume all environment variables have been compromised and rotate all secrets and credentials immediately, including those in workloads, secret groups and global secrets. Disable public access to addons where enabled.

We will share further updates as more information is confirmed.

• Update October 30, 2026 at 3:12 PM

Secret rotation on Postgres and MongoDB has been enabled for all users. We recommend disabling public expose on addons if you have enabled that.

All users should assume their environment variables are decrypted and begin rotation immediately.

Secrets on workloads
Secret groups

Global secrets

Multiple users are confirming that their AI keys have been used.

• Identified October 30, 2026 at 1:58 PM

Assume all environment variables have been decrypted. Disable/rotate all keys.

• Investigating October 30, 2026 at 1:40 PM

Rotate environment variables immediately.

11:43 UTC: Wiz threat alert

11:44 UTC: Northflank engineers review the alert

12:02 UTC: Initial network policy patch
12:50 UTC: Additional patching deployed

13:00 UTC: Wiz CIRT support requested

13:05 UTC: Additional patching deployed

13:05 UTC: Additional patching deployed

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