Handshake incident

Phone verification service degradation

Resolved after 3 hours 43 minutes, affecting Handshake for Students - US and Handshake for Students - EU, on October 20, 2025.

monitoring Oct 20, 2025, 08:58 PM UTC

Phone verification has mostly recovered. However our downstream services still are reporting some degradation. We are continuing to monitor.

Started
Oct 20, 2025, 06:18 PM UTC
Resolved
Oct 20, 2025, 10:02 PM UTC
Duration
3h 43m
Detected by Pingoru
Oct 20, 2025, 06:18 PM UTC

Affected components

Handshake for Students - USHandshake for Students - EU

Update timeline

  1. monitoring Oct 20, 2025, 06:18 PM UTC

    We're currently experiencing an issue affecting our phone verification process due to an outage with one of our third-party providers.

  2. monitoring Oct 20, 2025, 07:31 PM UTC

    We are seeing improved performance with phone verification. We are continuing to monitor.

  3. monitoring Oct 20, 2025, 08:58 PM UTC

    Phone verification has mostly recovered. However our downstream services still are reporting some degradation. We are continuing to monitor.

  4. resolved Oct 20, 2025, 10:02 PM UTC

    Resolving this as phone verification has recovered

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