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Google Ads Outage Resolved & Credit Refunds On The Way

Last updated on August 8, 2024

Screenshot of the Google Ads Status Dashboard showing incidents reported on July 30, 2022, affecting reporting services. The issues from the Google Ads outage have mostly been resolved, with ongoing restoration updates and acknowledgments of user inconvenience.

Since August 1st, Google Ads was experiencing a significant outage, that resulted in a data breach showing competitor data.

Google has announced that all reporting services have been restored, except for some competitive metrics. A final update is yet to be published to officially conclude this outage.

All impacted customers will be contacted directly with further details on this incident in the coming days and can expect credit refunds in the coming weeks.

UPDATE: As of August 8, all reporting services have been restored.

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