>>54112

“The data is safe. Services are offline as we examine and strengthen them. Sorry, but needed. @internetarchive staff is working hard. Estimated Timeline: days, not weeks,” writes Kahle.

>After a pop-up from a purported hacker claimed the archive had suffered a “catastrophic security breach” earlier this week, Have I Been Pwned founder Troy Hunt confirmed he’d received a file with the stolen data, so anyone registered on his site can get an alert if it includes their information.

>>54113
Hackers have compromised the Internet’s past, the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, stealing 31 million passwords and launching a massive Distributed Denial of Service attack in the process. It is unclear if the two security incidents, the compromise of the Internet Archive’s authentication database containing registered member details, including hashed passwords, and the denial of service attack, are related. However, the evidence does seem to be pointing in the direction of this being a targeted attack by the same threat actor.

What We Know About The Internet Archive Hack

The first clue that something was wrong came from the service itself, with the display of a JavaScript alert popup for visitors to the archive.org site which read:

"Have you ever felt like the Internet Archive runs on sticks and is constantly on the verge of suffering a catastrophic security breach? It just happened. See 31 million of you on HIBP!"

>>54114

Another reason I made this thread was mainly because Endchan's gotten DDoSed in the past too, so it felt familiar to me when I read this. Maybe we can recommend Basedflare (way better than cloudflare) to the Internet Archive team. I don't have a way of contacting them directly though

https://basedflare.com/

TL;DR

Internet archive is getting DDoSed hard. But everything is still archived

Web resources

https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/11/24268040/internet-archive-data-breach-outage-hacked

https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/internet-archive

https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2024/10/10/internet-hacked-wayback-machine-down-31-million-passwords-stolen/

Hackers are destroying the Internet's history book right now - YouTube
https://youtube.com/watch?v=N3ZGNT5S5IUint [Embed]

>>54114
Wow, I used to use it to store and share some of my favorite older media and scraped website backups. Very glad I never used my real email address and only used a disposable account that was not linked to any of my real information lol.

>>54115
I highly suspect this is some kind of State-backed attack in attempt to remove unwanted history or information they wish to scrub from future history books before WWIII breaks out. This is one reason I always recommend having multiple physical backups of all desired media & information offline in "cold storage" (aka extra unplugged external drives, thumb drives and discs).

I doubt regular hackers would go after something like the Internet Archive which is pro-internet, pro-disclosure.

Hopefully the files are all safe and can be restored soon.