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The well-known platform for fan fiction has been experiencing a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) assault in the last few hours. But it could be down for a longer time.
The Archive of Our Own—the largest digital library for fanfiction currently operating, and one of the highest-trafficked sites in the world—was temporarily unavailable after it experienced a large-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack from a hacker group calling itself “Anonymous Sudan.” Ao3 reported the outage early on the morning of July 10 and had restored service by around noon EST July 11.
The popular fanfiction site was targeted by a group claiming to be a part of Anonymous, but is likely a Russian-backed extortionist group.
The Archive of Our Own (AO3) website went down Monday morning due to a DDoS attack. The admins of the popular fanfiction site said volunteers are working on "countermeasures."
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