Internet Archive hacked, data breach impacts 31 million users ("The Wayback Machine")

bleeping computer ^ | 10 08 2024 | Lawrence Abrams

[sauropod]

bkmk

[Alas Babylon!]

It’s dead, Jim!

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

[SeeSharp]

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.

[nopardons]

BTTT

[Sarcazmo]

Wonder why?

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

[Sirius Lee]

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

Derpstate desperados?

[Sarcazmo]

Gotta be.

There must be a surprise coming.

[Red Badger]

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

[daniel1212]

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.

[Tench_Coxe]

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

[logitech]

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

[unread]

"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....

[Fiji Hill]

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.

[z3n]

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.

[Frank Drebin]

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!

[HombreSecreto]

Among other things, the Internet Archive contains tens of thousands of sound recordings.

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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/

[bk1000]

If I run across a hacker, he’s dead.

[Dr. Sivana]

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.

[Carry_Okie]

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.