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/

 

[8BitWonder]

The logic for this attack is stupid as fuck. "They are in the US and we are mad at the US." Why not go after government sites? Why be so cowardly as to go after IA?

Probably because the best they can do is take down a site that "runs on sticks".

Also, folks you probably don't want to be identifying that you were included in the breach for cross-referencing reasons, whether you include your IA username/email or not.

 

[SeventhSon7]

Does Nintendo have an alibi?

 

[rvtr]

Does Nintendo have an alibi?

Why do people say this. I go on this platform and it's an endless circlejerk of "nintendo is taking down everything". Even if it's a joke, don't. It has been said so many times before. Nintendo takedown jokes are so damn stale.

 

[AndorfRequissa]

the site has many backups done nothing will be lost. peoples accounts might be breached but i dont see it as a big deal as far as losing any content.

the big deal is that people are putting together lists from these breaches. lists of who to go after when ww3 starts.

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Why do people say this. I go on this platform and it's an endless circlejerk of "nintendo is taking down everything". Even if it's a joke, don't. It has been said so many times before. Nintendo takedown jokes are so damn stale.

because nintendo has sold itself out. they deserve to be endlessly circle jerked and shamed anytime possible until they change.

 

[rvtr]

because nintendo has sold itself out. they deserve to be endlessly circle jerked and shamed anytime possible until they change.

Sorry, they aren't listening. The repetitive jokes contribute nothing and only make threads unbearable to read because you have to filter out all the useless garbage.

lists of who to go after when ww3 starts.

???

 

[pustal]

The logic for this attack is stupid as fuck. "They are in the US and we are mad at the US." Why not go after government sites? Why be so cowardly as to go after IA?

I'm gonna put my tin foiled hat on this time and say: I bet a company or a few sponsored this attack and requested to be given some BS excuse. Only copyright fundamentalists gain with the Internet Archive down.

 

[LightningMC09]

internet archive is back up

 

[ChibiMofo]

Oh no! Six of my IA burner accounts have been compromised by angry teenagers!

Anywho...

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I'm gonna put my tin foiled hat on this time and say: I bet a company or a few sponsored this attack and requested to be given some BS excuse. Only copyright fundamentalists gain with the Internet Archive down.

LOL! Yeah, that's right. People who fight hard for copyright protection are willing to risk prison to temporarily bring the Internet Archive down. Good one!

 

[bonkmaykr]

Imagine DDoSing a massive nonprofit that benefits millions of people world-wide, both the rich and the impoverished, even in foreign countries ranging from Ghana to Palestine, because you somehow magically think that theyre helping Israel kill Gaza civilians.

Let that sink in for a moment. I won't go into the "which government is the bigger war criminal" debate here because it doesn't matter. No matter what your political opinion on the middle eastern holy war is, that is a fucking stupid move.

This skid needs to have his computer siezed permanently. To quote someone famous, the internet has gotten kids these days too used to saying shit to your face and not getting punished for it. This is not an ethical approach to hacktivism, it's punching downwards towards innocent people, rather ironically considering the motive.

*modsnip*

 

[20yumyumREAL]

there goes my microsoft account

 

[Purple_Shyguy]

This attack "totally" not funded by big mega corporations

If it was political activists it just further proof that Israel/Palestine protestors are the most obnoxious annoying group of people on earth right now. Taking a website down won't stop that bloodthirsty Jewish world leader from slaughtering people.

 

[kijetesantakalu042]

I had a clean have I been pwned before!

 

[The Catboy]

The “hackers” getting dunked on in the Quote Retweets

 

[BlusterBong]

Oh no! Six of my IA burner accounts have been compromised by angry teenagers!

why the fuck do you have more than 1 IA account in the first place?

 

[kijetesantakalu042]

why the fuck do you have more than 1 IA account in the first place?

I use IA as a google drive of sorts

 

[SecureBoot]

What morons. I'm actually trying to use IA today and let me tell you, this does nothing to change my opinions on the Israel-Palestine war in either direction.

 

[HarveyHouston]

I'm not against Israel. I'm not even against Palestine. I'm against whatever idiot came up with this lame excuse just to hack the Archive.

 

[sh2dc]

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[Dark_Ansem]

Such strange timing, I don't browse the site often, but I happened to be when the attack hit. I remember thinking it was loading particularly fast, then nothing.

Easier and safer than trying to ddos Israel and get a pager delivered to your door..

 

[Blasingame]

I wonder if IA will be able to archive a snapshot of their site being DDoS'd