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.
@ecksmc anyone with an account with archive.org should change their passwords ASAP.
For info this is who is taking responsibility for the breach:
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@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.