The Internet Archive is under attack, with a popup claiming a ‘catastrophic’ breach - A popup message claims the online archive has suffered “a catastrophic security breach,” as its operators say the site has been DDOS’d for days.

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When visiting The Internet Archive (www.archive.org) on Wednesday afternoon, The Verge was greeted by a pop-up claiming the site had been hacked. After closing the message, the site loaded normally, albeit slowly.

However, as of 5:30PM ET, the popup was gone, but so was the rest of the site, leaving only a placeholder message saying “Internet Archive services are temporarily offline” and directing visitors to the site’s account on X for updates.

Here’s what the popup said:

“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!”

HIBP refers to Have I Been Pwned?, a website where people can look up whether or not their information has been published in data leaked from cyber attacks. It’s unclear what is happening with the site, but attacks on services like TweetDeck have exploited XSS or cross-site scripting vulnerabilities with similar effects.

Jason Scott, an archivist and software curator of The Internet Archive, said the site was experiencing a DDoS attack, posting on Mastodon that “According to their twitter, they’re doing it just to do it. Just because they can. No statement, no idea, no demands.”

An account on X called SN_Blackmeta said it was behind the attack and implied that another attack was planned for tomorrow. The account also posted about DDoSing the Archive in May, and Scott has previously posted about attacks seemingly aimed at disrupting the Internet Archive.

We’ve reached out to the organization to learn more information.

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Link to discussion regarding the breach on Hacker News

 

[Casshern]

publishers suing decided to take down the library the hardway

Honestly I feel this is the more likely scenario than some election conspiracy. There’s not even any indication of *what* the govt would wanna hide, and its been shown that if its “nazi bigot transphobe misinformation propaganda” or (((journos))) then they will happily comply with locking away content.

I’m just mad about the PS1 thing. It’s fucking gay bros.

Unshackle yourself from DDLs my brother, achieve true freedom and use torrents. Download the entire PSX library and seed 10x over, compressing the entirety and safely storing it away. Jewish interests can never take away your gaymen again.

That doesn't work for the millions of files hosted on Archive.org that are media files like digitized books, movies, newscasts, radio shows, television shows, scanned art books, video game guides, and so on. Some collections of those types of media are basically exclusive to the Internet Archive and are very difficult to reliably find in other places.

Well most if not all books are covered by ZL/AA, and I believe there are better, more comprehensive projects covering vidya gaymen rags and radio shows. Some TV/movie content may definitely be at risk, but the best thing you can do is archive what you want to preserve. The IA is at constant risk of disappearing and ANYTHING on there, even with IA backups, may never be publicly available again. So it’s up to you to archive what you feel is important, ideally via their torrents (even if they absolutely suck ass most of the time).

 

[⚞⛇⚟]

I was about to say "deserved" because IA censors their archives but then this faggot had to ruin it with his Israel sperging. How does IA have anything to do with the shit the US does? He should kill himself. I believe everybody involved in this story should die.

While archive.org does a lot of retarded shit, I still hope that they stay around because there is a lot of shit that's on there exclusively without any backups anywhere.

 

[Temperance]

They got Community Noted, lol:


Update:
https://x.com/internetarchive/status/1844185233232625912


Have I Been Pwned: https://x.com/haveibeenpwned/status/1844146274758689206


The breach happened at least nine days ago, btw:
https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/9/24266419/internet-archive-ddos-attack-pop-up-message
https://x.com/troyhunt/status/1844148532703526928

 

[Isle of Carl]

Imagine attacking IA for shit the U.S. did when one of the things the U.S. has also done is make it virtually illegal for IA to operate at all. Fucking lobotomized faggot.

When has something like that ever stopped a hellbent trannigger, feminazi, or sharteen?

 

[AnOminous]

his wife

I'm trying to imagine this but I'm just not seeing it. This dude is either a faggot, a tranny chaser, or a plain old incel.

 

[Celebrate Nite]

Update:
https://x.com/internetarchive/status/1844185233232625912

Once again, JavaScript becomes the bane of everyone's existence online

 

[ditto]

The breach happened at least nine days ago, btw:

Nice work there, Troy.

 

[IamnottheNSA]

Couldn’t have happened to a nicer bunch of people.

Niggers had it coming, should’ve used KiwiFlare.

 

[Chaos Theorist]

Couldn’t have happened to a nicer bunch of people.
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Niggers had it coming, should’ve used KiwiFlare.

Retard take

 

[Pee Cola]

Archive sites are way too dangerous and there’s only a few. They’re all going to be gone within five years.

All of them. Mark my words.

Maybe it's time to start using binary newsgroups for archiving purposes?

 

[IamnottheNSA]

Retard take

I’m sorry you feel that way but I can‘t feel bad for them after they’ve proven through their actions that they would rather have all the information about actual criminals that we meticulously compile be gone from the Internet, being onboard with the DKF lunatics and their inane faggotry.

 

[30+GameOvers]

Just use archive.is
IA is a shitty, censored and easily manipulated inferior option

 

[DavidS877]

My CHD formatted PS1 isos! And my RVZ formatted Gamecube isos! This is a war on storage space

I was just updating all my rom collections to the latest versions too.

 

[Alex Hogendorp]

Couldn’t have happened to a nicer bunch of people.
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Niggers had it coming, should’ve used KiwiFlare.

Seems like karma bit IA pretty hard.

 

[Endangered Species List]

Source

Spoiler

Lmao


Holy based

Source


Some replies on their original announcement post:

And apparently their telegram is full of animal abuse pics

 

[Drain Todger]

Archive sites are way too dangerous and there’s only a few. They’re all going to be gone within five years.

All of them. Mark my words.

The ruling class want to be able to memoryhole anything they want. They don’t want people to have access to repositories of untampered information. They want to have the unfettered right to erase, obfuscate, and/or stealth-edit any facts that they deem too embarrassing or politically inconvenient for regular public consumption. The copyright trolling against the Internet Archive is a ruse. What they’re after is the Wayback Machine and other, similar crawling/screenshotting services.

 

[Markass the Worst]

Just use archive.is
IA is a shitty, censored and easily manipulated inferior option

The only good thing about IA is its crawler and host for a ton of user uploaded files.

 

[CumDumpster]

This attack seems to be the work of Hamas Operatives or government spooks. I'm taking a wild guess it's spooks given how the hacker group types in Arabic, Russian and English.
https://archive.today/8Jceb
https://archive.today/BuvFC
https://archive.today/gOA5R
https://archive.today/shSdu
Imagery for the hacker group Anonymous on that Darknet group's Twitter signal that it's spooks, also typing in all three of those languages (How many Muslims type in cyrillic?).

 

[Toolbox]

Just use archive.is
IA is a shitty, censored and easily manipulated inferior option

archive.is/ph/whatever and ghost archive are only capable of storing the content on webpages in links you put into them, and only partially. Archive.org allows for the storage of any type of file, pdfs, exes, videos, compress everything into zips and upload it there too if you want, they'll take it if it's not explicitly illegal/controversial to the mainstream left/owned by a company that's willing and able to DMCA. Which means a lot of abandonware, old newspapers, etc can be saved to there and easily. Only the so called 'Wayback Machine' part of the IA is specifically for saving snapshots of websites. I don't know of any actual competitor to them, and certainly not one that would be as capable. That's what is unfortunate about their absolutely ass leadership.

 

[Masturbator]

i wont be surprized if it was ordered by someone with enough cash, internet archive already got buncha enemeys in copyrighter ranks