AO3 fanfiction archive offline for weeks after security incident

The Organization for Transformative Works says AO3 is offline due to a security incident, with restoration estimated at about two weeks and up to a month. It is not related to the recent PHP◆ security issue, as AO3 runs on Ruby on Rails, so PHP-specific advisories should not be treated as applicable. The operator says it does not expect data loss, but the articles give no CVE, root cause, attack vector or attribution. Defenders should not assume a specific exploit from the reporting and should watch the official status updates.

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