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Site integrity incident, 2026-11-13

Oh, wow. Didn't realize that QQ got hacked. I thought it was something more innocent and also more annoying for the IT folks to track down. Like there was a server outage, eg. power systems got FUBARed or HDD/SSDs on the servers barfed. Also had the thought that possibly could've been ISP screw ups.

Here's to the mods / IT folks for kicking the hackers out and doing emergency patches.
👍 Cheers 🍻!

tftc!
 
prussian-granadier said:
Neither of those two are good tools to communicate with the general public.
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yeah, and we aren't the general public and a general public got lives.

When I saw that the site was down, I immediately said I guess I'll check back during my lunch break and guess what it was back up during my lunch break.

The only people that should be really concerned with the site being down are the staff and the people making money off their stories.

The rest of us can and should go live our lives until the site comes back.


I know I'm a goddamn freak who spend way too much time on this site but even I got other shit I can go do when the forum is down
 
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Peifmaster said:
It's starting to feel like someone or a group of someones have declared a war on smut. We cannot let this stand.
Many thanks to all the quiet heroes who keep this site running.
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More like "AI is making it cheap to do cyberattacks, so lots more people have decided to get in on it". And yes, some of those many people don't like porn.

(Others don't like e.g. Europe having food, and e.g. hacked supermarket fridges to spoil all the food.)
 
I thought this would be another AO3 situation. Or something happened to the physical servers.
Good to see our IT staff nipped things in the bud and stopped any user data from being gathered.

Do we have an idea of the objectives of doing this? Or was it one of those an exploit was found, let's see where we can use it?
 
There was a post on reddit where a person said that they had an unprompted download occur around the time the site went down. Anyone else notice something like that happening on their device? I didn't notice anything like that myself, but I also wasn't on the site when things were getting visibly wonky. I also haven't seen anyone else mention anything like this so far. Probably just a person connecting unrelated dots, but I figured it's probably better to ask than not. The post:

 
Toy said:
There was a post on reddit where a person said that they had an unprompted download occur around the time the site went down. Anyone else notice something like that happening on their device? I didn't notice anything like that myself, but I also wasn't on the site when things were getting visibly wonky. I also haven't seen anyone else mention anything like this so far. Probably just a person connecting unrelated dots, but I figured it's probably better to ask than not. The post:

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I noticed that post as well. I had a QQ tab open when the site when down (it was my ASOIAF story "Dragon of the East" that I'm working on right now) and I have not noticed any unusual occurrences on my device.

As a precaution I will no longer leave any QQ tabs open when I am not using them.

In other news, thank you to the Staff for clearing this all up in record time.
 
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