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Hackers have compromised the Internet’s past, the Internet Archive ’s Wayback Machine , stealing 31 million passwords and launching a massive Distributed Denial of Service attack in the process. It is unclear if the two security incidents, the compromise of the Internet Archive ’s authentication database containing registered member details, including hashed passwords, and the denial of service attack, are related.
"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!"Troy Hunt, the founder of the Have I Been Pwned data breach notification service referenced in the hacker’s note,, the first to report on the news, that the threat actor had shared a 6.4GB database with them some days ago.
The last timestamp in that database gives a clue as to when the breach occurred, September 18. According to Hunt, there are 31 million records in the database which will be added to the HIBP service soon so as to enable people to see if their data has been exposed by this attack.
“What we know: 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. Will share more as we know it.”Our community is about connecting people through open and thoughtful conversations. We want our readers to share their views and exchange ideas and facts in a safe space.
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