A sad day for the internet, as it has been confirmed that the Internet Archive (https://archive.org/) that hosts a massive amount of historical data has been hit by DDoS attacks, and unfortunately they've had a breach.
Recently instead of seeing the website as usual, users were greeted with message like this (credit):
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!
HIBP is in reference to the popular HaveIBeenPwned website, that lists various data breaches and now includes this latest breach in their database. Troy Hunt, founder of HIBP, confirmed in a thread on Twitter / X that it is legitimate and they had been communicating with the Internet Archive about it,
The breach was also confirmed by Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive, who said this on Twitter / X:
What we know: DDOS attack–fended off for now; defacement of our website via JS library; breach of usernames/email/salted-encrypted passwords.
What we’ve done: Disabled the JS library, scrubbing systems, upgrading security.
Will share more as we know it.
It did briefly come back up, but was hit by another DDoS. As a result, the Internet Archive has been taken offline while their admins deal with the situation.
An account on Twitter / X called "Sn_darkmeta" claimed responsibility for it.
Just another reminder that you should never share passwords between websites.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Quoting: StellaI don't get why anyone would want to attack the internet archive??? That's like bombing a library. What's the frikkin pointYes, well, when it comes to the bombing a library thing I keep expecting that to happen in the US. Lot of people these days that don't like libraries lending people the wrong books. Most of them simultaneously claiming to be free speech absolutists . . . some people make my mind boggle.
in any case one way or another dont believe the HYPE. as public enemy says not every thing is as white or black check history in are the actors that keep doing this to start wars, get people involved in wars, attack inocent targets to get people to hate your enemie etc.
Last edited by rek2 on 11 October 2024 at 3:41 pm UTC
Cloversheen about 3 hours ago
Quoting: rek2This is 100% a false flag, [...] also I work on cybersecurity for 30 years this type of attacks are not done by your typical cybercriminal, DDOS+breach+DDOS etc... [...] in any case one way or another dont believe the HYPE.Not trying to be mean, but you are just some random person. You might work in security, you might also not, your statement is basically "don't believe the hype, trust me bro" which... is kinda weak as an argument.
The sensible thing to do is to not believe any wild theories, just believe what we do know:
- IA was attacked.
- IA had a breach of 31 million accounts.
- Breach was confirmed by Troy Hunt who has a good reputation.
- A random twitter account claimed responsibility.
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