Dear Archive subscribers,
Last night, a malicious hacker acquired an API key to the Asian American Literary Archive site and deleted all our posts and pages. This means everything that was published for our courses, announcements, and Box 68 are gone. As far as I can tell, your personal emails were not compromised, and any payment information is processed on a different platform and was not a part of this breach.
I have already changed authentication for admin accounts and API keys to stem any further malicious activity. Unfortunately, there is no way to recover the lost pages that were deleted last night directly from site history.
Out of an abundance of caution, I will begin the process of migrating the Archive site off this server and moving the email list to a new platform. This means that announcements for summer courses will be delayed. When the migration is complete, I will launch summer courses and rebuild the maliciously deleted pages from the drafts I have stored elsewhere.
Thank you for your understanding and patience as I work on this.
Best,
Yanyi
Director at the Asian American Literary Archive