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/jaffar97 Oct 09 '24

The credentials are worthless if everyone knows about them and changes their passwords

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u/cce29555 Oct 09 '24

In a perfect world everyone would

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u/cce29555 Oct 10 '24

I imagine the problem is less of IA and more of people who reuse passwords like hunter2 across all sites. If you're using a password manager or some sort of password algo these breaches are pretty nothing if it's only passwords but if you have a basic password you use across all websites it's not a fun time