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Internet Archive Was Exposing User Email Addresses for Years Before Recent Breach
A recent data breach is not the only way that Internet Archive users have been left vulnerable online.
The Internet Archive recently was the target of a data breach that exposed information related to 31 million users, including their usernames and email addresses, among other materials. The nonprofit Internet Archive plays a vital role in online culture, preserving web content and other digitized materials and operating the popular Wayback Machine, which lets visitors see historic versions of websites. Despite these assurances, however, the Internet Archive appears to readily reveal the email address of content uploaders, ignoring support requests from users who flagged the issue for years.
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