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Internet Archive hacked, data breach impacts 31 million users ("The Wayback Machine")
bleeping computer ^ | 10 08 2024 | Lawrence Abrams

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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1 posted on 10/10/2024 5:33:30 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

bkmk


2 posted on 10/10/2024 5:34:54 AM PDT by sauropod ("This is a time when people reveal themselves for who they are." James O'Keefe Ne supra crepidam)
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To: yesthatjallen

It’s dead, Jim!

Hmmm… can’t reach this page
web.archive.org took too long to respond


3 posted on 10/10/2024 5:36:07 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)
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To: yesthatjallen
Bcrypt-hashed passwords

So they didn't get the actual passwords. No matter. The email addresses are probably worth more than passwords to the wayback machine.

4 posted on 10/10/2024 5:40:23 AM PDT by SeeSharp
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To: yesthatjallen

BTTT


5 posted on 10/10/2024 5:40:39 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: Alas Babylon!

Wonder why?

Someone want’s to erase the past? Who does that?


6 posted on 10/10/2024 5:42:03 AM PDT by Sarcazmo (I live by the Golden Rule. As applied by others; I'm not selfish.)
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To: Sarcazmo
Someone want’s to erase the past? Who does that?

Derpstate desperados?

7 posted on 10/10/2024 5:43:53 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (Trump/Vance 2024 or GFY)
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To: Sirius Lee

Gotta be.

There must be a surprise coming.


8 posted on 10/10/2024 5:46:15 AM PDT by Sarcazmo (I live by the Golden Rule. As applied by others; I'm not selfish.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Stealing the data from the Wayback Machine would be like a car thief stealing a ‘72 Ford Maverick................


9 posted on 10/10/2024 5:46:45 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: yesthatjallen
Not good. I rely on https://web.archive.org/ for certain stats on sodomy=HIV that the CDC deleted. Not surprised it was attacked, esp. after I posted this on Reddit.
10 posted on 10/10/2024 5:47:52 AM PDT by daniel1212 (Turn 2 the Lord Jesus who saves damned+destitute sinners on His acct, believe, b baptized+follow HIM)
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To: Sirius Lee

Well, they seem to be using ‘1984’ as the handbook, so memory holing inconvenient information would be a motivation.


11 posted on 10/10/2024 5:48:28 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe (The woke were surprised by the reaction to the Bud Light fiasco. May there be many more surprises)
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To: yesthatjallen

That sucks.
I’ve been watching The Fugitive series
They have all the episodes.


12 posted on 10/10/2024 5:51:39 AM PDT by logitech
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"Someone want's to erase the past? Who does that?"

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....

13 posted on 10/10/2024 5:55:17 AM PDT by unread (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the REPUBLIC..!)
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To: yesthatjallen

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.


14 posted on 10/10/2024 5:59:22 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Sarcazmo

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.


15 posted on 10/10/2024 6:04:40 AM PDT by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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To: yesthatjallen

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!


16 posted on 10/10/2024 6:05:17 AM PDT by Frank Drebin (And don't ever let me catch you guys in America!)
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To: Fiji Hill

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/


17 posted on 10/10/2024 6:10:28 AM PDT by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
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To: yesthatjallen

If I run across a hacker, he’s dead.


18 posted on 10/10/2024 6:14:21 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: Red Badger
like a car thief stealing a ‘72 Ford Maverick...

Put a 351 Windsor and the right carb in that baby and you'd have a hell of a sleeper.
19 posted on 10/10/2024 6:16:05 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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To: yesthatjallen; ShadowAce
I'm a frequent user of the Internet Archive almost exclusively to research old books but very occasionally I do use the WayBack to find old threads on FR that have disappeared from the FR archive.

I do not understand to what degree this is a threat to me. Anybody here who does, please enlighten me.

20 posted on 10/10/2024 6:20:39 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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