Internet Archive Hacked

[Corrine]

From Bleeping Computer:

Internet Archive's "The Wayback Machine" has suffered a data breach after a threat actor compromised the website and stole a user authentication database containing 31 million unique records.

News of the breach began circulating Wednesday afternoon after visitors to archive.org began seeing a JavaScript alert created by the hacker, stating that the Internet Archive was breached.

More info at the referenced link.

 

[Corrine]

For those who use x/Twitter, the status of the recovery of the Internet Archive can be followed here: x.com.

 

[Corrine]

Unfortunately, Internet Archive breached again through stolen access tokens.

 

[A Guy]

Internet Archive attackers email support users: “Your data is now in the hands of some random guy”

Those who hacked the Internet Archive haven’t gone away. Users of the Internet Archive who have submitted helpdesk tickets are reporting replies to the tickets from the hackers themselves.

Internet Archive, most known for its Wayback Machine, is a digital library that allows users to look at website snapshots from the past. It is often used for academic research and data analysis. Earlier in October, the Internet Archive suffered from a data breach and DDoS attack.

During that breach the attackers were able to steal a user authentication database containing 31 million records.

Internet Archive attackers email support users: "Your data is now in the hands of some random guy" | Malwarebytes

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