Posted on 10/10/2024 5:33:30 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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.
The text "HIBP" refers to is the Have I Been Pwned data breach notification service created by Troy Hunt, with whom threat actors commonly share stolen data to be added to the service.
Hunt told BleepingComputer that the threat actor shared the Internet Archive's authentication database nine days ago and it is a 6.4GB SQL file named "ia_users.sql." The database contains authentication information for registered members, including their email addresses, screen names, password change timestamps, Bcrypt-hashed passwords, and other internal data.
The most recent timestamp on the stolen records is September 28th, 2024, likely when the database was stolen.
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bkmk
It’s dead, Jim!
Hmmm… can’t reach this page
web.archive.org took too long to respond
So they didn't get the actual passwords. No matter. The email addresses are probably worth more than passwords to the wayback machine.
BTTT
Wonder why?
Someone want’s to erase the past? Who does that?
Derpstate desperados?
Gotta be.
There must be a surprise coming.
Stealing the data from the Wayback Machine would be like a car thief stealing a ‘72 Ford Maverick................
Well, they seem to be using ‘1984’ as the handbook, so memory holing inconvenient information would be a motivation.
That sucks.
I’ve been watching The Fugitive series
They have all the episodes.
The gumment, dim known as "da rats."
Just forget all about all that stuff they "purloined" and give them one more chance to finish us off....
This is terrible. Among other things, the Internet Archive contains tens of thousands of sound recordings. I regularly go there to get music. It also contains back issues of conservative publications like Human Events that are impossible to find elsewhere.
Someone want’s to erase the past? Who does that?
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Lots of people probably want to erase the past.
However, just because they downloaded an SQL dump doesn’t mean it’s gone.
...and even if it’s gone, if they site admin is worth their salt, they have done backups that they can restore.
Smells like a government op to me. Can’t have those pesky facts lying around...and who are the people utilizing this site...they want names!
Among other things, the Internet Archive contains tens of thousands of sound recordings.
IIRC, the recording industry giants have filed copyright infringement suits against them as well.
www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/internet-archive-major-label-music-lawsuit-1235105273/
If I run across a hacker, he’s dead.
I do not understand to what degree this is a threat to me. Anybody here who does, please enlighten me.
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