Box outage, August 2026: [Medium] Issues with Box Hubs Shared Links

Box reported and resolved an incident: [Medium] Issues with Box Hubs Shared Links. It lasted 1.7 hours.

Resolved

From Box's official status page, in their words.

What happened

Started
Resolved
Duration
1.7 hours
Impact
major
Affected
Box Hubs

Why it happened

Box has not given a cause in its updates. We never guess one.

This incident on the Box status page

Timeline

Newest first. From Box's official status page, in their words.

  1. postmortem

    We recently addressed issues affecting Hubs shared-link access in Box. We would like to take the opportunity to further explain these issues and the steps we have taken to keep them from happening in the future. ‌ Between August 27, 2026 at 11:18 PM PDT and August 28, 2026 at 2:48 AM PDT, some customers may have been unable to access Box Hubs using shared links. Other Box functionality, such as file and folder access, was not broadly affected. ‌ The issue occurred as a result of a recent code change in our ongoing effort to improve performance. We were able to resolve the issue by rolling back the change, and traffic returned to the previous behavior. ‌ # Analysis During a routine deployment, a configuration change intended exclusively for a pre-production environment was inadvertently applied to the production environment. The incident highlighted opportunities to strengthen deployment-time configuration validation and pre-deployment checks designed to catch environment-specific configuration differences. # Corrective Actions Box has initiated the following corrective actions: * Improving deployment validation to ensure required environment-specific configuration blocks are present before release. * Adding end-to-end checks for shared-link resolution that run as part of pre-release and rollout verification. * Enhancing production monitoring and alerts for shared-link failures so regressions are detected and triaged faster. ‌ We are continuously working to improve Box and wan

  2. resolved

    After further monitoring, this incident is now considered resolved. Box services have been restored to full functionality. Please contact Box Support at https://support.box.com/ if you continue to experience any issues.

  3. identified

    Box continues remediation efforts to restore full functionality to Box Hubs access via Shared Link. The underlying cause of the issue has been identified and efforts are underway to restore stability.

  4. investigating

    We are investigating an ongoing issue affecting Box Hubs shared links. Users may face issues with accessing Box Hubs using Shared Links. We will provide more information as soon as it is available.

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