Bitly

bitly.com

We monitor the subprocessor list Bitly publishes, which we last checked on Nov 11, 2026, but have not read any entries from it. A reading from Oct 22, 2026 is being checked. 3 tracked vendors name Bitly as a subprocessor, including Sprinklr, BrightLocal and ParentSquare.

Subprocessors

None extracted.

Web TechnologiesCSV · Atom

Bitly's homepage made 141 requests to 23 domains, and 9 services controlled by another company.

Advertising (3): Google Cloud, Microsoft, OpenAIAnalytics (1): ProfitWellMarketing automation (1): HubSpotA/B Testing (1): OptimizelyCookie compliance (1): OneTrustCDN (1): jsDelivrOther (1): Accessibility: Userway

9 third parties by category: Advertising 3Analytics 1Marketing automation 1A/B Testing 1Cookie compliance 1CDN 1Other 1

Third parties 9 · 83 requests
Google Cloud DoubleClick Floodlight Google Analytics Google Sign-in Google Tag Manager 21% of the page's requests 30
Microsoft Microsoft Advertising 10% of the page's requests 14
OneTrust OneTrust 9% of the page's requests 12
Userway UserWay 6% of the page's requests 9
HubSpot HubSpot 5% of the page's requests 7
Optimizely Optimizely 4% of the page's requests 5
OpenAI ChatGPT Ads Measurement Pixel 3% of the page's requests 4
ProfitWell Profitwell <1% of the page's requests 1
jsDelivr jsDelivr <1% of the page's requests 1
Affiliates 1 · 11 requests
Egoditor GmbH (QRCG by Bitly) qr-code-generator.com 8% of the page's requests 11
First party 1 · 47 requests
Bitly HSTS HTTP/3 Microsoft Clarity MySQL Nginx Open Graph PHP Priority Hints Swiper WPML 4.9.6 WordPress WordPress Block Editor Yoast SEO 28.2 Yoast SEO Premium 28.2 33% of the page's requests 47

8 tracked companies loaded by the homepage are not in Bitly's subprocessor list. A website can use a service without it processing customer data.

Subprocessor of (3)CSV · Atom

3 companies
  • BrightLocal brightlocal.com URL shortening service
  • ParentSquare parentsquare.com Shortened links for marketing content. No personally identifiable information is processed or stored.
  • Sprinklr sprinklr.com

Security recordCSV · Atom

What public security catalogs list for Bitly, in their words.

Data breaches

  • Bitly 9,313,136 accounts Email addresses; Passwords; Usernames

    In May 2014, the link management company Bitly announced they'd suffered a data breach. The breach contained over 9.3 million unique email addresses, usernames and hashed passwords, most using SHA1 with a small number using bcrypt.

    Have I Been Pwned

Breach data: Have I Been Pwned (CC BY 4.0), which calls every entry a breach, including data scraped from public pages (evidence)

Service statusCSV · Atom

Aug 14: no incident reportedAug 15: no incident reportedAug 16: no incident reportedAug 17: no incident reportedAug 18: no incident reportedAug 19: no incident reportedAug 20: no incident reportedAug 21: no incident reportedAug 22: no incident reportedAug 23: no incident reportedAug 24: no incident reportedAug 25: no incident reportedAug 26: no incident reportedAug 27: no incident reportedAug 28: no incident reportedAug 29: no incident reportedAug 30: no incident reportedAug 31: no incident reportedSep 1: no incident reportedSep 2: no incident reportedSep 3: no incident reportedSep 4: no incident reportedSep 5: no incident reportedSep 6: no incident reportedSep 7: no incident reportedSep 8: no incident reportedSep 9: no incident reportedSep 10: no incident reportedSep 11: no incident reportedSep 12: no incident reportedSep 13: no incident reportedSep 14: no incident reportedSep 15: no incident reportedSep 16: no incident reportedSep 17: no incident reportedSep 18: no incident reportedSep 19: no incident reportedSep 20: no incident reportedSep 21: no incident reportedSep 22: no incident reportedSep 23: no incident reportedSep 24: no incident reportedSep 25: no incident reportedSep 26: no incident reportedSep 27: no incident reportedSep 28: no incident reportedSep 29: no incident reportedSep 30: no incident reportedOct 1: no incident reportedOct 2: no incident reportedOct 3: no incident reportedOct 4: no incident reportedOct 5: no incident reportedOct 6: no incident reportedOct 7: no incident reportedOct 8: no incident reportedOct 9: no incident reportedOct 10: no incident reportedOct 11: no incident reportedOct 12: no incident reportedOct 13: no incident reportedOct 14: no incident reportedOct 15: no incident reportedOct 16: no incident reportedOct 17: no incident reportedOct 18: no incident reportedOct 19: no incident reportedOct 20: no incident reportedOct 21: no incident reportedOct 22: no incident reportedOct 23: no incident reportedOct 24: no incident reportedOct 25: no incident reportedOct 26: no incident reportedOct 27: no incident reportedOct 28: no incident reportedOct 29: no incident reportedOct 30: no incident reportedOct 31: no incident reportedNov 1: no incident reportedNov 2: no incident reportedNov 3: no incident reportedNov 4: no incident reportedNov 5: no incident reportedNov 6: no incident reportedNov 7: no incident reportedNov 8: no incident reportedNov 9: no incident reportedNov 10: no incident reportedNov 11: no incident reported

90 days agotoday

  • 0 incidents in 90 days
  • 0 major or critical
BeganIncidentImpactLasted
Major Service Outage - Bitly.com Website Unavailablecritical6 min
Partial Outage Impacting Pricing and Packagingno impact stated37 min
Intermittent Provider Issuesminor7 days
Sporadic Login Issues with Support Portalmajor1 h 21 min

Incidents per month

0 2 4 Dec 2025: 0 incidents Jan 2026: 1 incident (1 major) · typical time to resolve 1 h 21 min Feb 2026: 1 incident (1 minor) · typical time to resolve 7 days Mar 2026: 1 incident (1 no impact stated) · typical time to resolve 37 min Apr 2026: 1 incident (1 critical) · typical time to resolve 6 min May 2026: 0 incidents Jun 2026: 0 incidents Jul 2026: 0 incidents Aug 2026: 0 incidents Sep 2026: 0 incidents Oct 2026: 0 incidents Nov 2026: 0 incidents Dec 2025Jan 2026Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov

critical major minor no impact stated

As Bitly's status page reports its own incidents (scheduled maintenance left out), read every few hours since (evidence)

Federal contractsCSV · Atom

By funding agency. UEI ZFVSAC2WZP54 · checked Nov 10, 2026 · snapshot

AgencyPrime awardsObligatedSubawardsSubaward totalYears
Smithsonian Institution 3$61.5K——2024–2026
National Aeronautics and Space Administration 1$23.9K——2024–2025
Department of State 1$12.5K——2024

All 5 records

Prime awards and subawards reported by prime contractors. Purchases through a reseller name the reseller, not the vendor.

ChangesCSV · Atom

None since tracking began.

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