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.
News of the breach began circulating Wednesday afternoon after visitors to archive.org began seeing a JavaScript alert created by the hacker, stating that the Internet Archive was breached.
Same group attacked UAE bank in July
DDoS cyberattack campaign averaged 4.5 million requests per second, putting the bank under attack 70% of the time.
They are a pro-Palestinian hacktivist group BlackMeta, also known as DarkMeta
@ecksmc anyone with an account with archive.org should change their passwords ASAP.
For info this is who is taking responsibility for the breach:
@ChumCugger yeah eejits that group are.
In fact they are harming the people they claim to be helping
@ecksmc Honestly it's pretty hard to say anything bad about archive.org considering the sheer quantity of human knowledge accessible to anyone with an internet connection.
@ecksmc Wow. That's MAGA-level fucked up. Undermining an organization that helps keep politicians and news accountable.
@ecksmc The one silver lining is that the average American sees this as stupid. They are not winning any new converts to their cause. If anything, I hope it makes people suspicious of their motives.
And we should be.
"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"
Eejits
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Claiming they are doing it to hurt the US because of Gaza is just sooooo stoopid while in fact they are hurting the people they claim to be helping