Popular fanfiction platform AO3 goes down in wave of DDoS attacks

Archive of Our Own (AO3) experienced a wave of distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that forced the website offline for a short period of time.

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Archive of Our Own down updates — Thousands of users unable to access fanfiction website as server connection is out

Archive of Our Own Website Suffering Massive DDoS Attacks

Archive of Our Own down updates — Thousands of users unable to access fanfiction website as server connection is out

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Archive of Our Own Returns After Apparent DDoS Attack

Archive of Our Own Website Suffering Massive DDoS Attacks

It's a targeted attack folks. : r/AO3

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Do not open Ao3 now. Let it heal itself peacefully : r/AO3

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