The Internet Archive has faced a serious cybersecurity crisis that has taken both its Archive.org and OpenLibrary.org platforms offline. The Internet Archive cyberattack, characterized by a data breach and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, has raised concerns about the integrity and security of one of the largest digital libraries in existence.
The Internet Archive, a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving the world’s knowledge, was targeted by a cyberattack that has resulted in a data breach involving the exposure of user credentials for approximately 31 million users. The data compromised includes email addresses and salted-encrypted passwords.
On October 9, the founder of the Internet Archive, Brewster Kahle, confirmed the cyberattack on X (previously Twitter), detailing that the organization had not only been hit by a data breach but had also experienced a DDoS attack and defacement of its website. In his tweet, he wrote, “DDOS attack—fended off for now; defacement of our website via JS library; breach of usernames/email/salted-encrypted passwords. What we’ve done: Disabled the JS library, scrubbing systems, upgrading security.”
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