INFORMATION:\u00a0 For Brand members and readers who are registered at Archive of Our Own fanfiction library.<\/p>\n
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On October 29, 2026, <\/span>www.archiveofourown.org<\/span><\/a> went offline for maintenance. During this time, evidence of a security incident was detected; they are not yet calling it a security breach. Their site will remain down for two to possibly four weeks to continue maintenance as well as determine the extent of the incident.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n While reading comments in their <\/span>thread<\/span><\/a>, the AO3 administrators recommended that if members use the same username and password combination for other sites, that individuals seriously consider changing their passwords on those sites. Once AO3 is back online, I’m sure they will recommend for members to change their passwords there.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n As a good practice, different passwords should be used for all sites. It’s easy to get complacent, especially when sites do not require any monetary contributions to participate. But if all one does is add a different character or more at the beginning\/end of a ‘core’ word, it could still be easy for a hacker, with all their computer knowledge and programs, to determine that information and breach other sites using the same username where banking information is retained.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Here is the statement from AO3<\/span><\/p>\n Organization for Transformative Works Status – AO3 Down for Maintenance<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Brandsters<\/span><\/p>\n @Cheaux<\/a> @BluewindFarm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" INFORMATION:\u00a0 For Brand members and readers who are registered at Archive of Our Own fanfiction library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"template-full-width-post.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-miscellaneous","wpcat-1-id"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Bonanza-slide.jpg?fit=1086%2C815&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70660,"href":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70659\/revisions\/70660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}