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AO3 down for a few weeks

TailsWin

TailsWin

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In case you missed it, https://archiveofourown.org/ is down due to a "security incident" and they expect it to take 2-4 weeks to get it back to running. Info on their BlueSky.

This might be related to the recent PHP exploit, or just in general to the wave of hacks all over.

But it sounds a bit suspicious, if you ask me. AO3 claims no data at all was deleted; so either the hack wasn't too serious, or they have backups ready. If that's the case, why would it take weeks to restore? Does that add up, or is there something else?

Maybe I'm too deep into my conspiracy theories, but that sounds like a much more catastrophic failure - either hardware, or a concentrated targeted attack, or maybe some legal issues. I wouldn't be surprised if AO3 was in a similar situation like Motherless was a while ago. Remember that to an outsider, 'a collection of fictional works' may look exactly the same as 'a dark web for real rapists and cannibals'.

Or maybe their systems were just so outdated and this gave them a kick to finally do something about it...
 
Food Lion's websites and apps went down for two weeks in October due to a security breach, and that is pretty big since it's a large grocery store chain. As far as I know nothing that could be considered porn outside of selling pork ;)

And I don't understand why it took two weeks there either particularly since it was having a major negative impact on their business - all their loyalty programs and their weekly ads were on it - there isn't any way to ramp up mailer ads in two weeks.

It may be somebody is just kicking the doors in of any target they can find with useful member information in a database, and they don't want to put the site back up until the figure out how to stop it from happening again. 🤷‍♂️
 
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