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The Internet Archive site is currently under DDoS attacks by hackers Reader 10/14/2024 (Mon) 02:55 Id: 3bd4d4 [Preview] No. 23010

Really wanted to share this. Internet archive and the Wayback Machine are some of the most important websites on the internet. I hate seeing them go through so much shit for no reason.

>The Internet Archive will come back within “days” following a cyberattack that brought down the organization’s vast digital library and the Wayback Machine, according to an update from founder Brewster Kahle. It’s been struggling due to a data breach and DDoS attack earlier this week that revealed the email addresses, screen names, password change timestamps, and other information associated with more than 31 million unique email addresses.

>Currently, if you try to access the Internet Archive’s website, you’ll see a notice that says it’s “temporarily” offline. Links to the Wayback Machine also won’t load.

Reader 10/14/2024 (Mon) 02:56 Id: 51449f [Preview] No.23011 del

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“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.

Reader 10/14/2024 (Mon) 02:57 Id: 3bd4d4 [Preview] No.23012 del

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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!"

Reader 10/14/2024 (Mon) 02:58 Id: 3bd4d4 [Preview] No.23013 del

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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]

Also, Small Reminder Reader 10/14/2024 (Mon) 03:06 Id: 3bd4d4 [Preview] No.23014 del

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Also, it's illegal to engage in DDoS attacks against websites. It's a big federal crime.

https://www.upguard.com/blog/is-ddosing-illegal

https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/?view=article&id=243:ddos-attacks-are-illegal&catid=2

Anonymous 10/14/2024 (Mon) 03:11 Id: c49d76 [Preview] No.23015 del

yeah, with the archive down, it's affected essentially everybody. I first noticed when I went to watch a "questionably obtained" movie. Reddit has went wild with it.

Reader 10/14/2024 (Mon) 14:18 Id: 3c356e [Preview] No.23016 del

I used to use the Internet Archive 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 email account not linked to me personally. Another good reason to use opsec and have multiple offline backups of all your files.

As I mentioned on /b/ where this thread was mirrored I do think this is probably more likely a State-backed cyber attack. Why would hackers attack something as innocent as Internet Archive, when the only purpose would be to intimidate people and censor undesirable media & information. Who does that, typically...? I think we all know by now Zionist-occupied governments are the number one culprits of intimidation and censorship. The empire of lies will blame it on random hackers but this massive cyber attack still glows and glows hard.

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