Wayback Machine Archive Hacked

[boredjedi]

I saw about this earlier but wanted to make sure it was legit.
Seems there was a DDOS attack yesterday. Now the hack.

There were so many people just screwing around with the
information. I couldn't tell right away if it was legit.

This the message that was greeting users when going to the site

I took this screen shots earlier from a post about the hack



And of course site taken offline
When I sent to the site





Internet Archive hacked, data breach impacts 31 million users

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/new...million-users/


2024 is crazy

[chuft]

In other news, Google removed the cache feature from their search engine once and for all.

[boredjedi]

Yeah heard about that one

[possessor]

I'm happy about that

[possessor]

I knew this was gonna happen one day!



I didn't. But it has. And I'm not surprised.