Starting at 5pm on October 9th, Internet Archive users began reporting a popup message when trying to load the website, as well as an ongoing DDoS attack. The message foreshadows the data of 31 million users being leaked, and telling people to check haveibeenpwned.

(image from twitter)

This comes after IA founder Brewser Kahle mentioned a DDoS attack on the 7th and 8th.


As of writing this archive.org's services do not appear to work, though the message still appears. There has been no official response yet. When any news comes out this news thread will be updated.

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Update: The Internet Archive has been taken offline as of 5:30pm

Twitter account Sn_darkmeta is claiming responsibility for the outage (as well as past outages), citing that they started the attach because of the American government's association with Israel.

They are under attack because the archive belongs to the USA, and as we all know, this horrendous and hypocritical government supports the genocide that is being carried out by the terrorist state of “Israel”.

IA has been actively working on preserving Palestinian history, as IA's Jason Scott outlined in his twitter thread. This attack is completely contradictory to the attacker's values and makes no sense (assuming Sn_darkmeta is actually involved).

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At 5:50pm Brewster Kahle made a twitter post acknowledging the DDoS attack, however there was no comment on the security breach.

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This has now been confirmed to be a breach. Thank you @SylverReZ for dropping the article link.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ne...-hacked-data-breach-impacts-31-million-users/

 

[SylverReZ]

I guess it's the same guys who also launched a DDOS attack on Archive back in May. They've done another two attacks on Monday and Tuesday.

 

[Deleted member 655123]

Unfortunate. (┬┬﹏┬┬)
To avoid anything like this happening to you, please use proper security practices!

 

[BlusterBong]

Archive Today was better anyways.

 

[CMDreamer]

Instead of DDoS'ing Archive, they should've DDoS'ed a major site that really endorses the genocide on Gaza.

Archive already has to deal with US court litigations against digital lending, to now have to deal with this.

Bad move blackmeta.

 

[SylverReZ]

Instead of DDoS'ing Archive, they should've DDoS'ed a major site that really endorses the genocide on Gaza.

I agree. It's brain rot levels of stupidity involved.

 

[rvtr]

Archive Today was better anyways.

The Internet Archive has everything you could imagine. More than just archived websites. Attacks are a huge blow to anyone needing old TV, news, radio, piracy, books, etc. I've needed that site many times for research. Don't underestimate how important IA is.

 

[IC]

What in the world. What kind of logic is that??? As far as I know IA is not a government entity.

I understand having grudges against them, they are not the best at providing this service, but it is one of the most important services in the world and definitely on the Internet.
After all, my website (revival of a shut-down website) would not even exist if not for the Internet Archive.

Very sad to see this happen and that some people have this little intelligence in their brain. I understand their motives, but this is a completely nonsensical target to attack.

Archived multiple pages with the web archive just within the last few days. There were no signs of anything wrong. Just within those last few days I was thinking how it might be worth to actually have an account on their websites.

Was considering making donations to them within the last months as well, but I suppose now I will have to be especially worried about the safety of my data with them.

Truly an unfortunate and saddening situation. The state of this world is also saddening.

 

[rvtr]

Instead of DDoS'ing Archive, they should've DDoS'ed a major site that really endorses the genocide on Gaza.

I like the comments pointing out how this group has twitter blue (or whatever it's called now). You don't like IA but you'll support twitter? What the fuck.

 

[SylverReZ]

It has been confirmed that this is an actual breach, it is highly recommended that you do change your passwords.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ne...-hacked-data-breach-impacts-31-million-users/

 

[J-Will]

This is the worst thing that could ever be done to preservation. I hope IA will recover fast. I'm praying for Archive to go back up again.

 

[CeeDee]

the reasoning feels particularly inane to me given the internet archive is not owned by the government

 

[Latiodile]

the reasoning feels particularly inane to me given the internet archive is not owned by the government

political extremists gonna extreme politically

 

[Deleted member 655123]

Well then... At least we all get to change passwords together?

 

[rvtr]

View attachment 463791
Well then... At least we all get to change passwords together?

Lets be #PwnedBuddies

 

[LightningMC09]

that sucks me aswell (luckily its my secondary email, and a random password)

 

[NinStar]

I was just wondering why I couldn't access it a few minutes ago, I wasn't expecting something like this.

 

[Pismire]

the reasoning feels particularly inane to me given the internet archive is not owned by the government

Buncha morons fighting the wrong fight.

 

[Faust03]

I got breached in other websites I no longer use but not this for some reason.
Oh well, I should still change my password when the site comes back up

 

[SuperSVGA]

Archive Today was better anyways.

Archive Today came with malicious code built in. They literally used your browser to DDoS sites they didn't like such as the North Country Gazette, and that's in addition to the unusual Russian and Chinese tracking services it uses.