AOL outages and service status in Crest Hill, Illinois

Problems in the last 24 hours in Crest Hill, Illinois

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AOL Issues Reports Near Crest Hill, Illinois

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in Crest Hill and nearby locations:

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  Matt Zig (@matzig_ron) reported 46 minutes ago from Plainfield, Illinois

  @asskickerofyou @Phalanx4120 @JeffBurritt Aol email address, wtf?

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Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Tiffany LaDow, PharmD (@LadowTiffany) reported 4 minutes ago

  As a kid I got in so much trouble for chatting on AOL Instant Messenger while doing homework but honestly nothing could’ve prepared me better for Microsoft Teams ✨

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  JasonTLouis (@JasonTLouis) reported 7 minutes ago

  @Jason Computer from the Home Shopping Network in 1995. Pentium 166Mhz, 16MB Ram, 2.1GB HDD, 28.8kbps dial up and of course, AOL. Probably a Packard Bell but no idea.

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  Leonardo DiCaprio's Sleep Paralysis Demon (@CoffeeMelChaos) reported 10 minutes ago

  I've never experienced psychosis, but in 2020 my friend who had bipolar experienced severe psychosis that resulted in his death. I met J when I was a teen back in the AOL days. I was going through a lot and he told me to get my *** back to school, finish high school and go to uni

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  Offensive Lab (@OffensiveLab) reported 10 minutes ago

  New research shows content inside an email can escape its message boundary and interfere with the webmail interface. Across attack chains spanning Outlook, Gmail, Fastmail, Proton Mail, Yahoo Mail, and AOL Mail, the techniques can capture passwords, take over third-party accounts, leak tokens, hijack trusted UI actions, and manipulate AI tools that read email. PortSwigger researcher Gareth Heyes presented the work at Black Hat USA 2026. One Outlook/Firefox chain spoofs a Microsoft sign-in screen and captures the password a recipient types. A Yahoo/AOL paste race can expose a Medium email-login token and let an attacker sign in as the victim. A Gmail/Cowork chain can exfiltrate a Slack token after prompt injection and user interaction. The paper presents proof-of-concept research and does not report malicious exploitation. Public PoCs remain available as of August 8. The researcher said Fastmail fixed two CSS mutation bugs and a Proton Mail proxy bypass stopped working when he retested it, while Outlook label-jacking and Gmail's image-set() bypass still worked when the research was published on August 6. The paper does not state whether the full Outlook password-capture chain was fixed. For webmail providers, the paper recommends isolating HTML email in sandboxed iframes and tightly restricting CSS, custom attributes, select menus, and image requests.

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  Mari Luukkainen (@mariluukkainen) reported 11 minutes ago

  Bending Spoons is an Italian company that just bought Airtable for $1.2B 3 weeks after going public on Nasdaq. They already own AOL, Vimeo, Evernote, WeTransfer, Eventbrite, Brightcove, and about 50 other products. Revenue $1.3B in 2025, over $600M in Q1 2026 alone. Market cap briefly hit $25B. Their playbook: buy American tech icons at a fraction of their peak valuations, cut 75-85 percent of staff, raise prices, optimize margins. Evernote was bought for $200M after being valued at $1B. Eventbrite for $500M after IPOing at $1.76B. Vimeo for $1.38B. Now Airtable for $1.285B after being valued at $11.7B. The shopping list writes itself. Public SaaS is trading at 3-5x revenue, down from 18x in 2021. AI fear has crushed valuations across the board without distinguishing between companies that are actually threatened and those with deep workflow lock-in. Some categories that are mispriced right now: project management tools like Asana and Monday are trading at fractions of their peaks while still growing and serving enterprise customers. Collaboration and communication tools that have real user bases but stalled growth. Vertical SaaS companies where the software is deeply embedded in industry workflows that AI cannot easily replace. Developer tools with loyal communities but no path to the multiples their investors need. More European companies should be doing this. The 2021 vintage of overvalued American SaaS is a generational buying opportunity. These are real products with real revenue and real customers, just priced wrong because someone raised too much money at too high a valuation. The preference stack crushed the common holders and now the assets are available at good prices. Also, European companies have structural advantages here. Lower cost bases to operate these products and no pressure to hit Silicon Valley return multiples and operational discipline built from never having had the luxury of burning cash.

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  Calvin (tyler loop enthusiast) (@FlockCwood) reported 11 minutes ago

  Sometimes I think of the days of aol instant messenger, and how the tech would be to put up an away message and say something like “god my parents will never get me don’t text me. Don’t messsge me” Then proceed to sit there wondering why no one has texted me. Simple times

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  Xavier Rivera (@XavierRiveraX) reported 12 minutes ago

  PortSwigger's Gareth Heyes demonstrated CSS/HTML sanitizer-bypass attacks against 6 major webmail providers at Black Hat USA 2026, letting content inside an email escape the message boundary and hit the trusted interface: - Outlook (+Firefox): label-jacking spoofs a Microsoft sign-in screen, captures the typed password - Gmail: image-set() bypass chained with prompt injection via Claude Cowork's Gmail connector to steal a Slack token - Yahoo/AOL: paste-race bug exposes a 12-character Medium login token - Fastmail: two CSS mutation bugs plus a UI-hijacking flaw, since fixed - Proton Mail: proxy bypass that leaked recipient IPs, patched on retest Public PoCs are still live. Guidance: isolate HTML email in sandboxed iframes, restrict CSS.

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  astrosteve (@astrosteve) reported 14 minutes ago

  Fun fact: My computer was so close to being able to not run the original EQ well that if I had anything else running, it would stutter and freeze up. When I had to use AOL for about 2 months, this was a problem because the AOL client had to be running and made EQ stutter.

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  Stacks Laurent (@Stacks__Dinero) reported 15 minutes ago

  Bruh the **** I was doing in AOL chat rooms smh

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  ashley (@iseepinkelefnts) reported 16 minutes ago

  @hthieblot AOL/AIM. Windows 95 ****. 1995 and 2010 are not the name internet