Users stuck in a loop, unable to log in at all

Just received this email from Kath H:
Hello Ramón, sorry to intrude but I see you are posting in Forum 
Comments.
Could you please let someone know that a number of us are currently unable to log in - we are stuck in a constant loop.
Thank you.
Kath
And another one:
... my email notifications have also stopped.
Kath

Last night was absolutely bizarre!
Over a period of a couple of hours I kept trying to log in.  Each time the dialog would appear and I would enter my password.  Then, the login system went into a loop.  Here is a sample showing the sequence of URLs involved.  The window title (Os X, Safari) kept showing "Redirecting...".
http://forums.adobe.com/index.jspa
https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=ca&returnurl=http://forums.adobe.com /login.jspa&loc=en
(Redirecting)
https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=ca&returnurl=http://forums.adobe.com /login.jspa&loc=en
Back to
http://forums.adobe.com/login.jspa
...and looping between the following URLs...
http://forums.adobe.com/index.jspa
https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=ca&returnurl=http://forums.adobe.com /login.jspa&loc=en
At times, the second URL would contain hex-encoded characters (%20, for example).
This morning it look over a minute to get to the main index page.

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