Internet Archive hacked, data breach impacts 31 million users [View all]
Internet Archive hacked, data breach impacts 31 million users
By Lawrence Abrams
October 9, 2024 06:22 PM 9
Internet Archive
Internet Archive's "The Wayback Machine" has suffered a data breach after a threat actor compromised the website and stole a user authentication database containing 31 million unique records.
News of the breach began circulating Wednesday afternoon after visitors to archive.org began seeing a JavaScript alert created by the hacker, stating that the Internet Archive was breached.
"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!," reads a JavaScript alert shown on the compromised archive.org site.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/internet-archive-hacked-data-breach-impacts-31-million-users/
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I wonder what "user authentication database" means? user of what, authentication by whom?
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