Front-page
Updated
The Internet Archive Suffers Alleged Security Breach
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.
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/
Last edited by rvtr,
