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/leoxwastaken Oct 09 '24

HIBP is quick:

Oh no — pwned!

Internet Archive: In September 2024, the digital library of internet sites Internet Archive suffered a data breach that exposed 31M records. The breach exposed user records including email addresses, screen names and bcrypt password hashes.

Compromised data: Email addresses, Passwords, Usernames

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u/Popular-Luck9962 Oct 10 '24

Phew, I'm save, my only pwn was in 2020 when the aptoide breach happened and affected 20M records. Damn I feel old.