Internet Archive data breach overview:
- Who: Digital library Internet Archive confirmed it suffered a data breach that exposed 31 million unique user records.
- Why: The data breach was confirmed by Internet Archive, as well as the creator of data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned.
- Where: The data breach affects certain consumers nationwide.
Digital library Internet Archive confirmed it suffered a data breach that exposed a user authentication database containing 31 million records.
The data breach became known to the public after the hackers created a JavaScript alert on archive.org that informed website visitors they had breached Internet Archive, reports Bleeping Computer.
“Have you ever felt like the Internet Archive runs on sticks and is constantly on the verge of suffering a catastrophic security breach? It just happened. See 31 million of you on HIBP!,” read the JavaScript alert shown on the archive.org site, referring to data breach notification site Have I Been Pwned, according to Bleeping Computer.
The creator of HIBP, Troy Hunt, also reportedly confirmed the legitimacy of the incident.
Internet Archive data breach exposes 31 million unique records
The stolen database contains authentication information for registered members, including email addresses, screen names, password change timestamps, and Bcrypt-hashed passwords and other data, reports Bleeping Computer.
The most recent timestamp on the allegedly stolen data is reportedly Sept. 28, 2024, which Bleeping Computer reports is likely when the database was stolen.
In addition to the data breach, Internet Archive has also been dealing with a Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attack, according to a post on X by the non profit’s founder, Brewster Kahle.
Kahle wrote in a post on X on Oct. 9 that Internet Archive had suffered a DDOS attack that he said the organization has “fended off for now.”
The post was followed by another from Kahle the next morning, which disclosed the attackers had returned and knocked both archive.org and openlibrary.org offline.
It is not believed that the data breach and DDOS attacks are connected, according to Bleeping Computer.
In other recent data breach news, e-commerce platform Temu last month denied it suffered a data breach after a threat actor claimed to have stolen a database containing 87 million records of customer information.
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