Several websites of the Kadokawa Group, including Nico Nico Douga, are suspended, bringing to an end the record of consecutively posting Vocaloid videos at 16 years and 9 months.



Since the early hours of Saturday, June 8, 2024, the services of several websites of the KADOKAWA Group, including 'Nico Nico Douga,' have been suspended. According to KADOKAWA, it is highly likely that they have been subjected to a large-scale cyber attack, and recovery will be difficult until it is confirmed that the websites are safe.

Regarding the occurrence of outages on multiple KADOKAWA Group websites | Press release from KADOKAWA Corporation

https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000014844.000007006.html



Regarding situations where the Niconico service is unavailable - Niconico Info
https://blog.nicovideo.jp/niconews/225099.html

Niconico Video, a video streaming service of the Kadokawa Group, became unavailable from the early hours of Saturday, June 8th into the early morning hours, with CEO Shigetaka Kurita predicting that 'it will be difficult to restore service by the end of this weekend.'



Niconico Info also wrote, 'We cannot begin recovery until we are confident that we have completely eliminated the effects of the cyber attack and our safety has been confirmed.'

According to a statement from KADOKAWA, a problem occurred that prevented access to several of the group's servers, and the relevant servers were shut down to protect data. After an investigation, the company determined that it was likely the result of a large-scale cyber attack, and is currently working to protect and restore the system.

According to X (formerly Twitter) user Pompoko🦝, the last time there was a day without a single original Vocaloid song uploaded to Nico Nico Douga was on September 8, 2007, and the last time there was a day without a single Vocaloid song, including covers and parodies, was probably on August 30, 2007. Either way, it's been 16 years and 9 months since then, which means that at least one Vocaloid song has been uploaded to Nico Nico Douga every day for the past 17 years.




The impact of the service outage extends to Nico Nico Douga-related services, as well as the KADOKAWA official site and Enterbrain's shopping site Ebiten, and the official anime sites for ' Mayonaka Punch ,' ' Isekai Shikkaku ,' and ' VTuber Nandega Streaming To Become A Legend ' are no longer available. N Preparatory School is also no longer available.

Regarding the situation where N Preparatory School is unavailable | N High School, S High School (Correspondence High School, Wide Area, Credit System)
https://nnn.ed.jp/news/blog/archives/6-7n0kwm6ty/

In addition, from the evening of June 8th, a 'Watch over Niconico's recovery from the cyber attack' has been set up on YouTube as a haven.

A place to watch Niconico recover from a cyber attack - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFsRhQ7FGU7S-v-F9wemphKjtfEsVSKoh

There is also a time signal provided, and it is clear that users are responding enthusiastically to it.

A place to watch Niconico recover from cyber attacks 1st slot (2024/06/08 22:30~) - YouTube


About three minutes into the second stream, comments began to appear on top of the video, just like on NicoNico Douga.

A place to watch Niconico recover from cyber attacks, Part 2 (2024/06/09 10:30~) - YouTube


postscript·
As of 8:00 p.m. on June 10, 2024, Niconico said it was 'preparing to rebuild its entire system so that it is not affected by the cyber attack.'



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