
Claude Code Login Outage Locks Developers Out
Anthropic's Claude Code CLI suffered an OAuth authentication outage on March 11, locking developers out mid-work while the Claude API remained operational.
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Anthropic's Claude Code CLI suffered an OAuth authentication outage on March 11, locking developers out mid-work while the Claude API remained operational.

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