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<p class="duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&_a]:shadow-underline-white">Popular fanfiction platform Archive of Our Own (AO3) is currently experiencing a wave of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that have forced the website to go offline since Monday. AO3 first acknowledged the outage on the company’s official Twitter account on July 10 at 8:24 a.m. ET. <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/AO3_Status/status/1678458717879017492" rel="noopener">then confirming</a> that the problem was caused by “a DDoS attack,” a malicious cybercrime in which threat actors overwhelm a server with traffic, “causing the servers to go down.” </p>
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Popular fanfiction platform Archive of Our Own (AO3) is currently experiencing a wave of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that have forced the website to go offline since Monday. AO3 first acknowledged the outage on the company’s official Twitter account on July 10 at 8:24 a.m. ET. then confirming that the problem was caused by “a DDoS attack,” a malicious cybercrime in which threat actors overwhelm a server with traffic, “causing the servers to go down.”
