Hacktivists Claim Responsibility for Taking Down the Internet Archive

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Hacktivists Claim Responsibility for Taking Down the Internet Archive
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A pro-Palestinian group has compromised the login information for the world’s biggest digital archive and launched a sustained DDoS attack against the site.

The Internet Archive and Wayback Machine went down on Tuesday following a sustained cyber attack. In addition, the Archive’s user data has been compromised. If you’ve ever logged into the site to pore over its ample archives, it’s time to change your passwords.

“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!” The little alert said., a website where you can check an email address against data breaches to see if it’s been compromised. In a post on X, HIBP said thatHIBP founder Troy Hunt told BleepingComputer that the hackers shared the Internet Archive’s authentication database with him 10 days ago.

SN_BLACKMETA launched its Telegram channel on November 23 and has claimed responsibility for a number of other attacks including a six-day DDoS run at Arab financial institutions and various attacks on Israeli tech companies in the spring.“If our patrons around the globe think this latest situation is upsetting, then they should be very worried about what the publishing and recording industries have in mind,” Kahle said in a postin May.

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