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Site integrity incident, 2026-11-13

Ao3 being down didn't bother me too much since I don't use it that much, but I checked QQ this morning out of habit and went 'uh oh' once I realized the site was staying down.

Thanks for the work, folks. Echoing what other's have said, here's really hoping we don't see any more attacks through ai bullshit
 
It sucks. I can't think of any mitigation but to fight fire with fire; in the AI age webmasters have to spin up agents to look for own vulnerabilities.

Do you guys have enough tokens? I can chip in some buckaroos if you guys are running short.
 
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Renko said:
Makes me wonder why QQ got attacked in the first place.

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It wasn't necessarily targeted. The AI tools and bots that are available these days are letting malicious groups who know about a vulnerability trawl the internet to find sites with the relevant platforms for the vulnerability, and then just hack those sites in the hopes of getting something.

The general best thing to do is just keep up with security updates and not store anything too important on the site. My own company uses third party software for our payment processing, so even if we get hacked they can't get credit card data.
 
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Glad to see things resolved so quickly and efficiently, the admins and moderation are a treasure, truly they are.

Though with how much seems to be getting poked at the last week or two, Ao3, Danbooru, rule34xxx got hit a while back too, just a bunch of fanart, fanfiction and fanworks are getting targeted these days.

Granted a lot of stuff is getting targeted as well, I suppose this just affects those of us here reading more than some random corpo getting their shit rocked by a random prompt-kiddie because their last security audit happened when the majority of us were still sucking tiddy for food rather than fun.
 
Good work on the site staff. Honestly this could have gotten really bad, really fast. Thank you for helping maintain the integrity, safety, and storage of all the conversations, stories, and quests we've made together.
 
Thanks for the hardwork I can now continue writing when I get on my computer probably at around eight. After dinner.
 
Thanks guys for all the hard work and making things better. This was annoying but glad you were on the ball.

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This is what frustrates me the most about all of this tbh.

There were probably always people out there with the hacking skills necessary to hack a website like QQ, but why would they bother? They had more important things to be doing.

These AI agents though are putting that same power in the hands of just about any joe-shmoe. I fear that it'll kill the internet at this rate.
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I fully believe that it'll become an oroborus of idiocy before that happens. Some jackass'll decide to hack an A.I. provider, an A.I. will try to defend itself by attacking back, and since A.I. has now become a giant incestuous monster the big code providers will have to deal with the fact that the defensive A.I. now registers itself as it's own enemy.
 
Thank you for your hard work in bringing the site back so promptly.

Do you think there is a connection between the various major site and app blackouts? It feels like its been happening more and more frequently recently.

Ao3, QQ, Danbooru, Outlook and recently the US grounding all its flights.
 
Thanks for taking care of it staff. Yall rock
 
Good work, this place is like a home and I wouldn't want to lose it. I'll donate something when I stop being miserably poor.
 
Good turnaround for a nuisance hacker attack. Changing the vision settings is fairly minor stuff, but it's still annoying.

Thankyou.
 
As always the staff of QQ reign supreme. Thank you for your hard work!

Sadly, I think we'll only see more of these kind of incidents all across the internet. Keep a hold of your ass cheeks and brace yourself for the new world.
 
Thanks for all your hard work, and well done on taking action against hackers.

As a system administrator myself, I know just how much of a pain in the arse these kinds of people can be. You have my deepest sympathies and utmost respect for your efforts.
 
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