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Internet Archive hacked, data breach impacts 31 million users (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Jesus. Well, that answers why Archive.org was down so long today.

[–] Quacksalber 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think an unaffiliated group also ran a DDoS attack on the site.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

This is the equivalent of people beating up Mr. Rogers and stealing his wallet

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Who the fuck wants to hack them? You want something and they have it, it’s yours! That’s the entire point!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

Tinfoil hat mode engaged.

Maybe it was big entertainment. Disney doesn't like that Archive.org's collection of the original Transformers cartoon competes with such Disney+ hits as She-Hulk and The Jungle Book 2. So they're doing shady things to make their problem at least faulter if not go away entirely.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Can we come up with the worst possible hacker nickname for this trash human.

"WBL hacker" world's biggest loser or some shit