GitHub just suspended GitHub-actions[bot]

jaakkonen 17 points 2 comments May 26, 2026
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The github actions default issued identity service account just turned to "Ghost" breaking all Github actions builds. The https://www.githubstatus.com/ just shows degraded performance as of 2026-05-26T11:17 UTC

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ewidar

Seeing the same on our side, and now no github action is even getting picked up in our repo.

Narretz

They are now reporting that is a major incident: > We are investigating authentication issues leading to failure in starting Actions runs and downloading actions. At this time the majority of Actions runs is impacted.

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