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/

 

[JustABadger]

NEVER use your real email for ANYTHING.

Use services to hide your email addresses, use a password manager, use a VPN and enable 2FA. Never try to remember your passwords, unless it’s the one you need to access your password manager. Lie about your gender, real name and address whenever possible.

The reasoning behind this hack has won the gold at the mental gymnastic olympics. What are the chances YOU won’t be targeted because someone can and will say you’re a bad person because you indirectly supported <flavor of the month>’s baddies even though you did nothing?

 

[MaxiBash]

"Have you ever felt like the Internet Archive runs on sticks?"

Yea. I do feel that. Plenty of times. How many times haven't my items been under attack from spambots with me not even being able to report these users?

Not that it matters. Once that spambot is gone, another takes its place.

 

[MON5TERMATT]

"Have you ever felt like the Internet Archive runs on sticks?"

*I mean, the download speeds are crap but at least they EXIST*

It's like "hacking" Wikipedia. You aren't doing a good damn deed. You are just making more work for others....

 

[UltraHurricane]

"Have you ever felt like the Internet Archive runs on sticks?"

Yea. I do feel that. Plenty of times. How many times haven't my items been under attack from spambots with me not even being able to report these users?

Not that it matters. Once that spambot is gone, another takes its place.

i mean yeah, IA is a non-profit website that barely has enough funding to keep the lights on, let alone invest in security infrastructure so it naturally makes them an easy target but usually people don't cause hacking a site like IA would be the internet equivalent of beating up an old lady on the street. Sure... you can totally do that but it would be what the kids call... "a bad look"

 

[tech3475]

No joke, as I was loading this site first thing this morning, I thought to myself "what ****y news has been posted today?.

 

[NitroRevolutionNX]

Lets be #PwnedBuddies
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Me too sadly. Tbh, it doesn't matter for me. I retired that email already and most is transferred over to my new one

 

[TheDerpyDolphin]

I didn’t even realize I had an account for Internet Archive, but apparently it’s part of the breach. Time to go figure out what my password could be so i can change it

 

[rvtr]

I didn’t even realize I had an account for Internet Archive, but apparently it’s part of the breach. Time to go figure out what my password could be so i can change it

Just ask the hackers, they'll know

 

[Jayro]

It pissed me off too, because I was trying to download a copy of a lost SNES tool, and apparently the ONLY copy in the world is on that site, and the site was down. Fuckers...
I finally got the tool today, and I'm gonna re-upload it here in the downloads section so it's not lost on a flimsy website being run from seemingly a Raspberry Pi Zero on a potato battery.

 

[linuxares]

And password changed...

 

[GolfDude]

elon should perma ban that account for terrorism, they have no right to free speech on his platform.. period

 

[Ligeia]

Seriously ? What kind of stupidity is that ?

 

[SDA]

Blackmeta will pay for this. No, really, they will have to! You know they did this because of the war between Israel and Palestine, right?

 

[JustABadger]

Blackmeta will pay for this. No, really, they will have to! You know they did this because of the war between Israel and Palestine, right?

^ This is what happens when the user posts after simply reading the title.

 

[SDA]

^ This is what happens when the user posts after simply reading the title.

For the record, I did read the whole thing. And the Twitter posts.

 

[ikynx]

Nintendo at it again to get those sweet nes roms gone?

 

[Stan4d]

Bruhhhhhh....

 

[Viri]

Fucking godammit, I got "pwned" over some stupid ass war in the "holy land".

 

[isoboy]

I was prepared for this. Apparently not affected (weird) but I still changed some things still. The pwnd website says "collection 1" so maybe more to come. I'm not worried, I feel like I have control.

 

[impeeza]

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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.

View attachment 463785
(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.

---

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.



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).

---

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

---

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/

Mossad replying soon