AOL outages and service status in West Wickham, England

Problems in the last 24 hours in West Wickham, England

The chart below shows the number of AOL reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in West Wickham, England and surrounding areas. An outage is declared when the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line.

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AOL Issues Reports Near West Wickham, England

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in West Wickham and nearby locations:

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  Brian Hutchinson (@bhutch41) reported 1 minute ago from Lambeth, England

  Still having intermittent trouble sending/receiving emails on my @AOL account. Updated password on AOL via Safari; it works. Does not work through my normal email channel either sending or receiving. Systems don’t seem to share info - help!

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  Orrin Edenfield, an 🇺🇸 living in 🇬🇧 (@OrrinEdenfield) reported 3 minutes ago from Eltham, England

  @benjedwards school library had a dial-up modem (probably 9600 baud) to ISP through school district. At home was local ISP as AOL/Compuserve/etc. never had local numbers for me.

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  Chris Romer-Lee (@chrisromerlee) reported 5 minutes ago from Lambeth, England

  @aolmail A family member has received the most appalling customer service from #aol. Utterly shocking. All she wants to do is reset the password as she’s been locked out & the response was effectively, go away and set up another account. She has replied, but I’m not happy.

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  Brian Hutchinson (@bhutch41) reported 14 minutes ago from Lambeth, England

  @AOL after weeks of “wrong password” still having major problems with AOL! Seems email & via Safari not joined up. Worrying as I’m in middle of negotiations! Help!

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  Brian Hutchinson (@bhutch41) reported 17 minutes ago from Lambeth, England

  Weird today on @AOL receiving all emails on iPhone but iPad still saying “wrong password”. Password same on both devices! Help!!!

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  Steve O (@journeymanstev1) reported 23 minutes ago from Camberwell, England

  @Suvvo @AOL I’m having same problem… think it’s worldwide

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  Brian Hutchinson (@bhutch41) reported 23 minutes ago from Lambeth, England

  @aolmail @AOL @AOLSupportHelp having rectified the continual WRONG PASSWORD notice, today it’s back again but only on my iPhone 7+, not on my iPad which is working perfectly. HELP!

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  Brian Hutchinson (@bhutch41) reported 25 minutes ago from Lambeth, England

  @AOLSupportHelp Hi Guys, password prompt now so frequent; every time I open my AOL email account. Please ask your engineers to fix quickly. Thanks so much.

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  James Freund (@jayfreund) reported 25 minutes ago from Poplar, England

  @AOLSupportHelp hi there having trouble accessing my emails at the moment , I’ve tried to reset my password and it won’t allow me to , could you help?

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  Tom Broad (@broad_thomas) reported 27 minutes ago from Bexleyheath, England

  @AOLSupportHelp hi we have forgotten our aol@password tried to recover it but can’t, have no recovery details set up help please

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  The Urban Kitchen (@urbankitchen) reported 31 minutes ago from Camberwell, England

  @ShikhaJainMD Actually got 2 - never had MySpace or AOL account!

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  Jonathan Richard (@JonRichard) reported 37 minutes ago from Bromley, England

  @yungcontent And Bebo never sells to AOL

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  Brian Hutchinson (@bhutch41) reported 41 minutes ago from Lambeth, England

  @AOLSupportHelp Did send it but still having same problem!

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  Brian Hutchinson (@bhutch41) reported 43 minutes ago from Lambeth, England

  Recurring @AOL password problem; keeps telling me “incorrect password” again; had same problem a month ago. When I input password it is accepted for a short while then same message appears again; infuriating! HELP!!!

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  Brian Hutchinson (@bhutch41) reported 53 minutes ago from Lambeth, England

  I’ve been with AOL all my internet life. Just recently it keeps telling me my password is wrong; I put the same password in again & it’s alright for a while. Today emails appear then suddenly vanish, is @AOL trying to dismiss me. Help!

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  Mic Wright 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ (@brokenbottleboy) reported 54 minutes ago from Poplar, England

  When it first arrived — and I made a blog there within the first two months of its public existence — @tumblr was the near perfect blogging platform. Then AOL destroyed it. Now it’s a horrible jail where I can’t get rid of this dumb screen. Thanks @automatic.

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  Brian Hutchinson (@bhutch41) reported 54 minutes ago from Lambeth, England

  Although I have re-installed @AOLSupportHelp on iPhone I am still receiving “wrong password” messages. Puzzling that all’s well on iPad & laptop! Help!!!

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  Tullocarm (@Tullocarm) reported 55 minutes ago from Lambeth, England

  So frustrating @SkyHelpTeam. I'm cancelling my direct debit. Screw your 'service'. I'd rather bring back AOL dial-up 😤

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  Chris Romer-Lee (@chrisromerlee) reported 56 minutes ago from Lambeth, England

  @aolmail are you considering replying to this tweet? I’ve had another response from AOL ‘support’ team which is useless. Please DM today.

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  Sarah Solomon (@xSarahSolomon) reported 58 minutes ago from Camberwell, England

  AGREED! Every kid except me had nice shiny internet...we were stuck with that shitty AOL dialup that we were only allowed to use to play Cartoon Network games on if we were good 🥴

AOL Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Joy Flick (@JoyFlick1) reported 3 minutes ago

  The exact cause of the fire that destroyed the historic former church at East 55th Street and Central Avenue in Cleveland on August 21, 2026, is still under investigation. What We Know About the Fire - Time and Place: The two-alarm fire started around 2 a.m. at the vacant building. Gas Status: Officials stated that the gas service to the building had been turned off for a long time. Building History: The structure was built in the late 1890s—initially as a Jewish synagogue before serving as the Friendship Baptist Church for decades. Prior Issues: Police had responded to reports of break-ins and vandalism at the empty property over the years. According to an AOL report, no injuries were reported, but the 100-year-old structure suffered a catastrophic collapse of its wooden interior and is considered a total loss.

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  Æ AI 🏴‍☠️ 原子纪元 (@atomeons_ai) reported 6 minutes ago

  @Scobleizer The moment is set later in retrospect. That's the issue. We look back at the 1000s of moments and pick one. Like AOL CDs but there was much more to the moment. This ebbs in then a crash.

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  CivilExile (@CivilExile) reported 8 minutes ago

  @Irina_exh I NEVER did AOL. But the rest...yrp

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  mr mula (@mrmula973) reported 9 minutes ago

  @Carpetpatch1 @OrevaZSN you act like AOL went extinct when 2000 came around. And honestly don’t give a **** about what it looked like back then. Everything yall had, we have now x10 and some more. Tf are you saying?

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  PIL Watch Group (pilwatchgroup) (@pilwatchgroup) reported 11 minutes ago

  @LiveLawIndia SC made an Himalayan effort to ensure 'Art of living' (AOL) is bailed out brushing aside concerns of environmental groups. SC says river Bank was already damaged in part. If that be so would 'AOL' have any business to damage it further. If AOL knew the damage,why use the site?

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  Herman, NXT social media legend (@herman_segle) reported 12 minutes ago

  @joshbmessenger @Ace109610 WWE Network would always crash, buffer and many times the picture looked like it was video being played on a dialup server like AOL.

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  Gary Smith (@inflyte21) reported 14 minutes ago

  19. Never had an aol address. Can I substitute for an 8-Track to receive the 20?!??

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  Paul Walsh (@Paul__Walsh) reported 14 minutes ago

  People keep asking why Apple allowed OpenAI to build a ChatGPT integration for Messages. Do get to the point, I don’t think Apple anticipated a company using the permissions required by ChatGPT specifically to read, analyse and store people’s Messages when the Messages app includes iMessage and not just SMS. The entire point of iMessage is that it’s rich media *and* end to end encrypted. The permissions OpenAI needs exist for legitimate software, and Apple warns people before granting them. Backup software needs Full Disk Access to back up protected files. Security software needs it to inspect files for malicious activity. Disk utilities need it to search, recover and manage protected files. It’s similar to WebView. It gave developers a way to display parts of an app that could change without requiring a new app release and App Store review, such as terms of service, privacy policies and other remotely hosted content. In 2014, I predicted developers would eventually use WebView across every major app, with some apps built almost entirely inside it. I also warned this would create a security problem because WebView had no protection against dangerous links or malicious code typically found on webpages. Developers could make a WebView look identical to the native app, so people wouldn’t know whether they were using the app itself or interacting with a website. Today, in-app security is a multibillion dollar industry because it’s obvious that opening links inside an app might not be as safe as it should be. Most predictions, especially in the context of digital risk, are not believed by a lot of people. But they become obvious eventually. Today, I’m saying OpenAI’s ChatGPT integration with Apple Messages is more dangerous for some people than almost anything else on the market. Of course someone can take screenshots and send them to the FBI, repeat something they were told, or deliberately share a private conversation. That completely misses the point. None of those things is equivalent to giving an AI service automated access to read, analyse and store entire message histories involving everyone someone communicates with. Comparing deliberate human disclosure with automated access at scale ignores the capability that makes this fundamentally different. And why it removes the main benefit of end to end encryption. I can’t comprehend how security professionals can defend anything that undermines the purpose of end to end encryption by saying "but encryption isn’t broken". Protecting messages while they’re being transmitted means very little if an agent can systematically read, analyse and store them before they’re sent or after they’re received. Apple permissions have legitimate purposes. This particular use of them is the problem. During the early 2000s, I advocated for browser extensions. During the mid to late 2000s, before the first iPhone when mobile web didn't exist, I advocated for mobile web instead of WAP. In 2015, I advocated for chatbot integrations across messaging platforms and business tools. I’m a developer advocate, an open standards advocate, child safety advocate, and privacy advocate. I co-founded 2 W3C initiatives, including the Mobile Web Initiative, where I was tasked with rewriting Tim Berners-Lee’s vision of "One Web". And was a significant contributor to 8 technical specifications, including the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0. I care about humanity. I don’t advocate for one thing in isolation from everything else. I’m a technical expert in specific areas with OSINT skills and 30 years across web, telecom, and mobile. 💡 I consider every stakeholder affected by open standards, technology, and legislation. Sometimes convenience justifies a privacy tradeoff. Sometimes privacy should take priority over security, and sometimes security should take priority over privacy. None of these should be treated as an absolute regardless of the consequences. In 2017, the PKI Consortium asked me to advise them privately and write about the impact DV SSL certificates and HTTPS Everywhere were having on anti phishing security. I faced fierce criticism from privacy advocates who argued that the connection should be encrypted even if the person on the other end was an impersonator. Those were their words. If you care, search for "Insecure Elephant in the Room". The fundamental reasons phishing works were the same when I was impersonated in 1996 when phishing was first discovered on the AOL network, the same when I wrote about it in 2017, and the same today. Now I have to argue with some security professionals defending something that undermines the purpose of end to end encryption. They need to look beyond the mechanics of software and encryption. Technology is an enabler. We need to consider human behaviour, how people will actually use a capability, and what happens when that behaviour occurs at scale. Also, the potential intent that goes beyond a website or privacy statement. I’ve faced this repeatedly over the years. Today, when I argue that government policies and age verification introduced in the name of online child safety and preventing child exploitation are actually surveillance measures, child safety advocates accuse me of not caring about children. This isn’t rocket science. Add AI to everything, even if you’re willing to accept the risks to yourself. But please don’t add AI in ways that undermine another person’s right to privacy or, depending on the context, their personal safety. Some people's lives depend on their ability to rely on end to end encryption. We're not talking about SMS. 💡Criticising the technology used to pursue an objective doesn’t mean opposing the objective.

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  Michael Dunphy (@mikld1260) reported 19 minutes ago

  @Irina_exh 17 never used a Fax machine or a floppy disk or an AOL address. The others I used on a regular basis

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  Time Capsule Tales (@timecaptales) reported 21 minutes ago

  On the day Michael Jackson died in 2009, the internet collapsed. The LA Times, AOL, TMZ, AIM, and several other major sites completely crashed. Searches for the King of Pop spiked to an insane ~4.2 million per minute. Google believed it was under some kind of cyber attack because of the sudden flood of people searching “Michael Jackson”. Twitter went down and Wikipedia crashed around 3:15 p.m. PDT.