The popular fanfiction site was targeted by a group claiming to be a part of Anonymous, but is likely a Russian-backed extortionist group.
also recently targeted Microsoft Outlook, UPS, and Scandinavian Airlines, causing major problems for all the services, at least briefly. If it thought it was going to have easier pickings with a site like AO3, which is run primarily by volunteers, it might have been mistaken.Anonymous Sudan eventually stated it was resposible for the DDoS attack, and posted a ransom of $30,000 USD in Bitcoin on itspage.
Give or take a few hours, the site was back up and running at pretty much nominal speeds within a day. During that time, however, multiple fans of the site and fic authors shared what they had to do in order to survive without their “bedtime stories.” Folks shared old internet screenshots or hand coded HTML fansites that collected work . Much was made about “resorting” to different fanfic sites, like Wattpad or Fanfic.net.
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