The Internet Archive site remains offline after serious data breach

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Trouble with a capital "T"
Internet Archive Remains Offline to Focus On Data Security After Breach msn.com

Many of us use the Internet Archive and WayBack Machine non profit site, for legal to watch movies, books, documentaries, historical information and for it's internet archival pages: WayBack Machine. Unfortunately it has been hacked, data stolen and is offline.

The Internet Archive could be offline for a while to prioritize data security after a hacker breached the nonprofit and stole data on 31 million users...The archives founder Brewster Kahle has confirmed the site had a breach with usernames, email accounts, and hashed passwords were stolen from the site.



The Guy Who Sees Movies
Internet Archive Remains Offline to Focus On Data Security After Breach msn.com

Many of us use the Internet Archive and WayBack Machine non profit site, for legal to watch movies, books, documentaries, historical information and for it's internet archival pages: WayBack Machine. Unfortunately it has been hacked, data stolen and is offline.
Wow. Being what it was, I always assumed that anything there was free to use, download or whatever. What would be the point of a breach, aside from login/passwords to an open site?

I do hope they fix it because it's such a great resource.



Trouble with a capital "T"
Wow. Being what it was, I always assumed that anything there was free to use, download or whatever. What would be the point of a breach, aside from login/passwords to an open site?

I do hope they fix it because it's such a great resource.
The hacker group posted on X (Twitter) and claimed it was done to punish the U.S. for it's support of Israel during recent events. Some are calling that a smoke screen as the Internet Archives is not a U.S. library site or U.S. government owned, but is a non profit data base of information open to the world. Think of it as the Library of Alexandria...Some say it's telling that the same hacker group took a pro Russian stance against Ukraine. They also released a video about the hacking of Internet Archives and it wasn't in Arabic or Persian language but in Russian.

My feeling is it has nothing to do with politics but has to do with profit, as in killing a free site that competed against the big Russian social media site ok.ru. There was once an American pirate movie site that hot linked movies to ok.ru that was very popular...they were suspiciously taken done by a hacker's DDoS (distributed denial-of-service attack) this was down time and time again until they folded. I assume Russian hackers weren't happy with the competition.



The Guy Who Sees Movies
I have not looked at it for a while, but, all things considered it's about as non-political as a site can be. Whoever does this seems to have less of a political bone to chew...more of a nihilist.



the toronto library system got hacked last year and was down for five motnhs.
Looks like someone needed more time to finish reading a book.



we had plenty of time. like five months.
Oh? Was the system hacked?