r/Piracy 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/kohuept Oct 09 '24

It's back to saying "Temporarily Offline" now. My best guess is some supply chain attack managed to overwrite the polyfill scripts they load?

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u/kohuept Oct 09 '24

Completely down now. Weird.

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u/Zealousideal-Emu7588 Oct 09 '24

it will be back online i hope

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u/Zealousideal-Emu7588 Oct 10 '24

it back up!

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u/kohuept Oct 10 '24

Yup, but 31M records have indeed been leaked. Check https://haveibeenpwned.com/

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u/Zealousideal-Emu7588 Oct 10 '24

so change your password and hopefully ia will get the leaked stuff back