Archive of Our Own, which hosts more than 18.4 million fan works, went down for maintenance on Thursday; its operators say restoration will take about two weeks and up to a month, and they cannot rule out that the user database was stolen.
AO3, the largest fanfiction site in the world, went down for maintenance on Thursday. Its operators say bringing it back will take about two weeks, possibly a month.
The scariest part came in Friday morning's update: no works have been deleted, but the organisation does not currently believe the user database was stolen and is also unable to rule it out. That database holds usernames, email addresses, IP addresses and hashed passwords.
A site carrying 18.4 million works is simply going to be gone for a while. What I am more curious about is where the writers go for that month.
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