Archive of Our Own security incident history
Hacking, data breaches and other security incidents involving Archive of Our Own, with related coverage.
Incidents: 1 · Most recent
AO3 security incident shuts down service amid fears of member data theft
Impact: Service outage and possible theft of the member database
Fan works platform Archive of Our Own (AO3) discovered evidence of a security incident, suspended its service and began investigating and restoring operations. On 30 October, its administrators said recovery could take two to four weeks. Works and bookmarks were preserved, but they could not rule out the theft of a member database containing usernames, email addresses, IP addresses and password hashes.
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