Internet Archive hacked, data breach impacts 31 million users

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• HiDiddlyDoodlyHo@beehaw.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What kind of people target the Internet Archive? I don’t have an X account so does anyone know what their mission statement is?

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  • Toes@ani.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Their mission is committing to provide “universal access to all knowledge”.

    It’s rather depressing that people are attacking such a site. They might have even made a bit of coin if they responsibly reported it.

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    • DdCno1@beehaw.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I would guess that it’s simply large enough to be a valuable target.

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• Mothra@mander.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wait the IA is still going on? I’ve been getting an error whenever i tried to access it for days now

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  • Segab@beehaw.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There was a DDoS but it’s a separate attack from what I read

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• toothpicks@beehaw.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You sunk my battleship

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• barsoap@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The only reason I can think of to get that data is to circumvent archive.org’s limitations on renting out stuff so your bots can slurp data without getting throttled.

  That is, my best guess is that this was pirates seeing if they can’t add to libgen.

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