The Internet Archive Suffers Alleged Security Breach

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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.

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(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.
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).





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/
 
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bro why would they
-Israeli guy
Yeah man I fucking love walking down the street and punching random women in the face whenever one commits an infanticide in another continent whose country I can’t even point correctly on a world map. That will show them. I’m definitely not a woman hater though, just an anti-misandrist.
 

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this hacker has a few screws loose not all americans support isreal but i rather not do a political derailment of this thread but it does deal with genocide and i'll leave it at that
it's very likely he's trolling and is only saying it to get a rise out of people, a lot of the greatest cyber-attacks in history were done for shits and giggles and i seriously doubt he actually had any political agenda going after IA
 

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Anything I can make will be stronger than any general use implementation.
I can even chain feed to another ciphers or simple coding, like base64, to make it even more secure, but that'd be overkill IMO.

I agree you just have to know what you're doing.

I'm no amateur or layman on the subject either: CS major, expert in CyberSecurity and Network Security, working in the area for over 10 years ;)
I wasn't calling you specifically a layman or an amateur, just speaking generally. If you can do better, though, you should release your own tool or contribute to existing ones!
 
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Who the hell would attack the internet archive, of all things?

GodDAMN it, Sony and Nintendo! I dont care if they ordered or originated the attack; the problem is their pettiness and legal tantrums make it entirely on brand for them to be party to such a hostile act.
It's not them, it's politically driven hackers
 
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Who the hell would attack the internet archive, of all things?

GodDAMN it, Sony and Nintendo! I dont care if they ordered or originated the attack; the problem is their pettiness and legal tantrums make it entirely on brand for them to be party to such a hostile act.
Sony and Nintendo are probably happy about the hack, but it wasn't them. It was apparently a bunch of Palestine supporters, that were angry that the US hosted the website.
 

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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"
Just because they're a non-profit organisation doesn't mean they can't enhance user capabilities by giving people a report button for fake reviews, perhaps even letting item creators delete these reviews themselves to save staff from sitting through thousands of reports.

It's not like most of the things that get posted are reviews anyway. Not much changes if someone were to remove a one star review.
 

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Wouldn't it be great if there was an archive.org section for all security breaching attempts and where they originally came from in response to this? Hey guys, you like breaching websites? Let's archive your addresses if you don't mind! People can use the wayback machine to see what you all did. Or...you can just stop and find a better hobby, like developing a better engine than the Fallout 4 one with your coding skills.
 

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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.
piracy 💀
 

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