Internet ArchiveGreat Library of the network, there has been a loss security breach who exposed personal data Up to 31 million of its users, including their email addresses email or theirs passwords Encoded. Later they also became victims of cyber attack Which has forced them to stop their services.
The Internet Archive is a non-profit organization that provides free access books, music And moviesamong other materials. As of September 5, it stored over 42 million printed materials, 14 million audio files, 13 million videos, 5 million images, 1.2 million software programs, and some 272,660 concerts. there is also a platform wayback machineA space that stores 608 billion web pages from 1996, allowing users to go back in time to see what the Internet was like at that time.
“Catastrophic Security Failure”
In recent days, the portal was hacked by unknown actors, a “bug” Security The “disaster” that caused the Internet Archive suffered a denial of service attack, after attempting to notify its users.DDoS), a method based on overloading a website with requests so that it collapses, as its founder explained today, brewster kahle,
The security breach may have occurred in late September. 30th is the date when it was notified troy huntoperator Have I been taken hostage?A web portal that allows you to check whether your email account, your domain or your data has been exposed to a cyber attack. Hunt confirmed this to special media bleeping computer That leak included “email addresses, screen names, password change timestamps, Bcrypt-encrypted passwords, and other internal data” for 31 million accounts.
After confirming the impact, Hunt began adding the affected emails to its website yesterday. 54% of them had already been exposed in previous breaches.
Internet Archive began experiencing DDoS attacks on Monday, but it was yesterday when its services were disrupted. “We are being prudent and prioritizing data security despite the loss of service availability,” Kahle commented in a message published at 12:36 pm this Thursday.
At the moment, it is unknown who is behind this attack on the great Internet library. “They do it just to do it. Just because they can. Without any statement, without consideration, without demand,” has declared Jason Scott, archivist at The Internet Archive, on his Mastodon account.
