AOL outages and service status in Cupertino, California

Problems in the last 24 hours in Cupertino, California

The chart below shows the number of AOL reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Cupertino, California 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 Cupertino, California

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in Cupertino and nearby locations:

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  Jeff Meyer (@meyerjr) reported 19 minutes ago from Sunnyvale, California

  @harrymccracken Alas, my AOL CD just got scratched and I'm off line until they answer my support escalation call requesting a replacement.

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  Jeff LaMarche (@jeff_lamarche) reported 21 minutes ago from Cupertino, California

  @octothorpe PCPursuit wasn’t shenanigans. Totally legit service that let you use TeleNet (dial up backbone used by aol and compuserve) to make outbound calls in other regions. Was like $30/month. Now you could get to places to learn about shenanigans using it…

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  John K. Lin (@johnklin) reported 23 minutes ago from Mountain View, California

  @ccwu I remember being a Quantum Link subscriber on my Commodore 64 and 300 baud modem and that service disappearing fairly quickly. I only learned later from Kara Swisher's book on AOL that Quantum Link was the precursor to AOL.

AOL Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Loki ☕ (@_DetectiveLoki_) reported 7 minutes ago

  @Vocado114 I've had loads of Discord accounts and have never seen this before, no clue what to suggest with that. Are you signing up with multiple different emails from the same provider (eg. multiple which are aol)? That's all I can think of

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  Teafor2 (@GTeafor2) reported 7 minutes ago

  @EvadneFirenze @MDymore @AOL I think you are correct and they turned her down.

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  Tnt13521 (@tnt1352172047) reported 10 minutes ago

  @Matt_Pinner 19, never had AOL account

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  DragonKnot (@dragon_knot) reported 13 minutes ago

  @oelma__ 18, never did AOL or mix tapes

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  sprint (@sspriint) reported 15 minutes ago

  AOL and Time Warner merged in a $165,000,000,000 deal, and two years later the company wrote off $99,000,000,000 in a single year. The announcement came in January 2000, weeks before the dot-com peak. An internet company buying one of the largest media empires on earth. AOL was the smaller business by revenue and profit. It had the stock price, which was the currency that made the deal possible. Steve Case and Gerald Levin stood on stage and called it the future. Dial-up subscribers plus film studios, cable systems, magazines, and music. Then the bubble burst. AOL's advertising revenue collapsed, and the subscriber business began dying as broadband arrived and nobody needed dial-up anymore. The cultures never combined. Time Warner executives resented being bought with inflated paper, and the AOL side found the media business slow. In 2002 the company reported a loss of about $99,000,000,000, the largest annual loss in American corporate history. Almost all of it was writing down the value of AOL itself. The AOL name came off the company in 2003. The two businesses split apart entirely in 2009. Levin later apologized publicly and called himself responsible. The biggest deal ever signed destroyed more value than most companies ever create.

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  Tnulb Sivart (@TravisBlunt) reported 16 minutes ago

  @ClayTravis Sports Illustrated is still a thing? Huh, have touched that garbage of a publication in probably a decade, just assumed it was the AOL of sports!

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  Offensive Lab (@OffensiveLab) reported 17 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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  Dr. Ernie Taylor (@Taylor1Dr) reported 19 minutes ago

  @Matt_Pinner I never had AOL but the rest of them I knew and used them all the time so 19 out of 20 ain’t bad

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  Arin Dube (@arindube) reported 20 minutes ago

  @brian_callaci Never had an AOL email. But others check out ahem. (Also I am older)

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  Brian (@Limerick_Brian) reported 21 minutes ago

  @Matt_Pinner 19 never had aol address but had the equivalent