The co-authoring platform AO3 was attacked by DDoS, and the hacker demanded to pay 300000 US dollars to spare the website.

CTOnews.com, July 12 news, AO3 is a non-profit open source platform, mainly publishes works of the same person, that is, relying on the popular text, the second creation of character setting, character relationship, and storyline, and was once out of the circle because of the "star creation" incident the year before last.

▲ Tu Yuan AO3AO3 official account said a few days ago that on July 11, Beijing time, the website was attacked by DDoS and all services were temporarily interrupted. On July 12, AO3 tweeted that the service had been restored, but that "some work may need to be done to optimize Cloudflare settings."

A group called Hacker Actionism claimed responsibility for the attack and demanded a $300000 ransom from the AO3 team, otherwise hackers would continue to attack AO3's servers and "suspend" AO3's services for several weeks.

It is reported that the AO3 platform is fully supported by user donations and maintained by volunteers, so the platform is actually unable to pay the ransom.

Flashpoint, a security analysis company, said the "hacker activism" group had been active this year and had previously targeted Microsoft and a number of European commercial companies and demanded high ransoms to spare them.

Flashpoint claimed that the composition and actual motive of the hacker group are not yet known, and it will take some time to judge.