Internet Archive hacked, data breach impacts 31 million users

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

8 Comments

  1. Oh great, first, “hacktivists” initiate a DDoS attack on the impartial non-profit Internet Archive, which provides a useful service across the internet for free, supposedly because it “belongs to the USA” (source:[ their Twitter](https://twitter.com/Sn_darkmeta/status/1844104165192253945)), and now someone compromised their user database.

    Seriously, what has the Internet Archive done to hurt anybody to become a target of supposed “hacktivists”?

  2. Icy_Violinist4720 on

    I wouldn’t doubt if it was maybe financed on the low by some copyright entities. It is kinda of the last hold out. Wonder how much Nintendo was archived.

  3. Optimistic_Futures on

    Mildly interesting, someone posted something about a video today, but the original article for it was removed. So for the first time in years I went to the way back machine but it kept erroring out. Then it finally sent me to an error page saying to check their twitter. There was a 20 second old tweet mentioning the DDOS attack.

    Just odd timing.