Wayback Machine (archive.org), an Internet Archive tool that allows users to access archived versions of websites, was hacked by a hacker group. It ended up in revealing 31 million user records.
Last week, an unfortunate incident occurred when Wayback Machine (archive.org), an Internet Archive tool that allows users to access archived versions of websites, was hacked by a threat actor organization known as SN_BLACKMETA, revealing 31 million user records. The stolen items contained email addresses, screen names, hashed passwords, and other internal information. DDoS attacks are also being launched at IA (Internet Archive).
The pro-Palestinian hacktivist group SN_BLACKMETA has claimed responsibility for the DDoS attack, writing on the social media site X:
The hacker gang launched a DDoS attack on the Wayback Machine (archive.org), overloading the website with so much traffic that it crashed, making it impossible for regular users to access it. As a result, the Wayback Machine has been unavailable since that date. Brewster Kahle, the founder of the Internet Archive (archive.org), confirmed the story on October 14 via social networking site X, writing:
The good news is that the website has been restored, but in read-only mode. While the Wayback Machine allows you to search 916 billion online pages that have been stored throughout time, you cannot yet add an existing web page to the archive.
While the Internet Archive is dealing with a data breach and DDoS attacks at the same time, it is unclear whether the DDoS attack and the data leak originated from the same source.
Conclusion : Attacks to resource like orchive.org is disaster for Internet users
