What’s happening with AO3? Archive of Our Own fanfic site gets hit with DDoS attack
An anonymous hacking group reportedly took credit for the attack on Telegram.
The popular fan fiction website Archive of Our Own (better known as AO3) is going through a sustained denial of service attack (DDoS) as of Tuesday morning. The site’s status update Twitter account first reported unknown issues in the early hours of Monday morning. Five hours later, the account confirmed that the issues stemmed from “a DDoS attack causing the servers to fall over.”
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