Internet Archive has been hacked. Impacts 31 million users

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https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/internet-archive-hacked-data-breach-impacts-31-million-users/

Internet Archive’s “The Wayback Machine” has suffered a data breach after a threat actor compromised the website and stole a user authentication database containing 31 million unique records.

News of the breach began circulating Wednesday afternoon after visitors to archive.org began seeing a JavaScript alert created by the hacker, stating that the Internet Archive was breached.

“Have you ever felt like the Internet Archive runs on sticks and is constantly on the verge of suffering a catastrophic security breach? It just happened. See 31 million of you on HIBP!,” reads a JavaScript alert shown on the compromised archive.org site…

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At this point we are left wondering if any of the available archived file downloads have been compromised.

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The Internet Archive hackers still have access to its internal emailing tools

Hackers began emailing replies to Internet Archive Zendesk support tickets last night…

I thought that after the hack Internet Archive would disable/replace its API keys.

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FWIW, they’re up and running a/o this post.

Lots of Internet shenanigans going on right now!

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https://blog.archive.org/2024/10/21/internet-archive-services-update-2024-10-21/

In recovering from recent cyberattacks on October 8, the Internet Archive has resumed the Wayback Machine (starting October 13) and Archive-It (October 17), and as of today (October 21), has begun offering provisional availability of archive.org in a read-only manner. Features like uploading, borrowing, reviewing items, interlibrary loan, and other services are not yet available. ..

* Would you trust them ?

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Oh, the Archive is totally offline again a/o this post. <Facepalm>

The Huns have just sacked Rome again.

This is just really awful.

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Alex5723 wrote:

Would you trust them ?

Not anytime soon.

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Tonight from the FWIW department:

“In recovering from recent cyberattacks on October 8, the Internet Archive has resumed the Wayback Machine (starting October 13) and Archive-It (October 17), and as of today (October 21), has begun offering provisional availability of archive.org in a read-only manner. Features like uploading, borrowing, reviewing items, interlibrary loan, and other services are not yet available.

Please note that these services will have limited availability as we continue maintenance.

https://blog.archive.org/2024/10/21/internet-archive-services-update-2024-10-21/

(Missed this the first time.)

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