Codex hit by mass 401 'invalid API key' errors as OpenAI status page shows no outage
iamgarffi · reddit · 2026-09-26
A Reddit user reports Codex suddenly failing across requests with 401 Unauthorized: Incorrect API key provided: sk-svcac, meaning valid keys are being rejected. Notably, OpenAI's official status page had no reported outage at the time, so the incident was still unconfirmed.
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