OpenAI Codex outage: users hit "401 Incorrect API key" from OpenAI's own API

IgorCarron · x · 2026-09-26

Multiple users report OpenAI Codex is down. One user found Codex being rejected by OpenAI's own API with a "401 Incorrect API key" error for an sk-svcac key they never set, despite being signed in with ChatGPT. Others report long-running tasks stuck on "Reconnecting" indefinitely.

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