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Internet Archive Breach Exposes 31 Million Users


The hack exposed the data of 31 million users as the embattled Wayback Machine maker scrambles to stay online and contain the fallout of digital —and legal—attacks.

Will share more as we know it.” “Scrubbing systems” refer to services that offer DDoS attack protection by filtering malicious junk traffic so it can't deluge and disrupt a website. We are working to bring http://archive.org back online.” The hacktivist group known as “BlackMeta” claimed responsibility for this week's DDoS attacks and said it plans to carry out more against the Internet Archive. It recently lost an appeal in Hachette v. Internet Archive, a lawsuit brought by book publishers, which argued that its digital lending library violated copyright law.

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