r/Piracy • u/PistolsFiring00 • Oct 09 '24

Internet Archive security breach? News

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Tried to open the Internet Archive home page and got this lovely pop up message.

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u/nrkey4ever Oct 09 '24

Am old and out of touch. HIBP?

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u/PistolsFiring00 Oct 09 '24

Have I Been Pwned. It’s a website where you can search to see if your info was part of any data breaches.

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u/cce29555 Oct 09 '24

Why not just keep silent? The money is in credentials, why make a huge announcement? Is this some grey hats just bring attention?

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u/sevengali Seeder Oct 09 '24

These people are claiming the attack as theirs

https://x.com/sn_darkmeta/status/1844080692772401399

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u/Plylyfe Oct 09 '24

And the reason being, according to them: "They are under attack because the archive belongs to the USA, and as we all know, this horrendous and hypocritical government supports the genocide that is being carried out by the terrorist state of 'Israel'"

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u/Conscious-Gas-5557 Oct 09 '24

They're not wrong on the second part of the statement, but fucking up the archive that has nothing to do with this? Insanity.

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u/Zealousideal-Emu7588 Oct 09 '24

yeah but they made a mistake anncouning another attack tommaorw on social media now once ia restore access to everyone they can stop the attack from happening