7 publishers · first seen Thu, 29 Oct 2026 20:43 UTC · updated Fri, 30 Oct 2026 19:47 UTC
Archive of Our Own (AO3) remains offline, with the Organization for Transformative Works (OTW) estimating a restoration period of around two weeks but possibly up to four weeks after detecting evidence of a security incident. The outage, first announced on 29 October and confirmed on 30 October, follows earlier maintenance that was intended to last only 12 hours.
OTW says the site’s data appears intact and has not confirmed that the user database was stolen, though it cannot rule out that possibility. As a precaution, users are advised to change passwords on other services where the same credentials may have been used.
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