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Internet Archive reels from 'catastrophic' cyberattack, data breach

Economic Times · 2m

- The Internet Archive, an online repository of web pages, was offline after a major cyberattack that exposed user data and led to the defacement of the site. - The attack was claimed by a pro-Palestinian hacktivist group and was aimed at disrupting the website through distributed denial-of-service attacks. - Usernames, emails, and passwords of 31 million accounts were breached in the attack, according to a pop-up message posted by the hackers. - The Internet Archive's founder acknowledged the breach and stated that the organization is working to upgrade security and restore services. - The hacker group responsible for the attack, SN_BLACKMETA, claimed that the Internet Archive was targeted due to its perceived association with the US government and support for Israel. - The Internet Archive, founded in 1996, operates the Wayback Machine, a web archive essential for fact-checking, documenting content changes, and preserving digital collections.