The site is up and operational at this time, and I am not aware of any widespread outage occurring today. When I check the site you refer to, it shows that the site is up as well. You should be able to access the site and your account without difficulty at this time.
We did experience a brief outage yesterday, but had the site back up within a few moments of that occurring. Apologies for any inconvenience that may have caused.
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