AO3 outage tied to a security incident may last up to a month
OTW says restoration may take about two weeks and up to a month, and it does not expect data loss.
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3 articles · newest firstAO3 stays down after security incident; data theft not ruled out
Works were not deleted; the outage may last two to four weeks, and reused passwords should be changed elsewhere.
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Archive of Our Own says outage may last up to four weeks
OTW moved its estimate from 12 hours to about two weeks, and possibly a month.
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