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The Internet Archive slammed by DDoS attack and data breach
The Internet Archive, the nonprofit organization that digitizes and archives materials like web pages, came under attack Wednesday. Several users –
Have I Been Pwned(HIBP), a data breach notification site, later confirmed the breach, saying that 31 unique email addresses and user names were stolen; so did Brewster Kahle, the self-described digital librarian who founded the Internet Archive in 1996. Indeed, after what may or may not be a related distributed denial-of-service attack on the service (a hacktivist group claimed responsibility for one but not the other), Kahle on Wednesday night suggested there could be more to come. The organization has “fended off” the DDOS attack “for now,” scrubbed its systems, and upgraded its security, he wrote on X.
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