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AO3 Cyberattack Leaves Archive of Our Own Offline for Weeks

The AO3 cyberattack has kept Archive of Our Own, the world’s largest fan fiction library, offline since Thursday 29 October 2026, leaving more than 11 million registered users locked out of nearly 18 million stories. The nonprofit Organization for Transformative Works, which runs the archive, said it found evidence of a security incident and expects the site to stay down…