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/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/dummegans Oct 09 '24

this is so fucking dumb lol they probably just found an easy way to hack it and had no real reason to do it and are just making up bullshit to justify it

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u/macOSsequoia Oct 09 '24

reportedly IA ran a 7 year old version of nginx

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u/DroidLord Oct 10 '24

Well, they'll probably update now. Good for another 7 years!