The Internet Archive Keeps Getting Hacked

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[naswinger]

you know, some dude from r/datahoarder who mirrored hundreds of petabyte from the internet archive is smiling knowing that his work was worth it and he could rebuild the archive at any time.

[austinlaramee]

This is like shutting down a food bank or library. It’s a public good. You accomplish nothing.

I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s a false flag from other interests because this target is plain stupid on the ‘hackers’ part

[ccdrt]

said it before and ill say it again, who benefits more from erasing the verifiability of history:
1. random trolls
2. government states

gee i wonder…

[littlejam]

You know it's bad when even Black Hats on Forums are like WTF Dude . But as we see again not keeping up your Security can have consequences

[LysergicKids]

> Presents self as black hat
> Speaks as if white hat
> Doesn't dump or auction data
> American writing style
> Doing rounds with media

Nothing glowing here folks..

[KoongYe]

Vandalizing a graveyard. Truly the lowest of low.

[jeremybowers]

Yup, it's definitely election time.

[pressfinchat]

The fact that the security was so weak to the point that nobodies lowlife hackers could hack into it, yet it took so long for them to finally get hacked just shows how much respect everyone has for Internet Archive. Targeting the only archive of the Internet is just a new low.

[luszczi]

The Internet Wayback Machine and the file archives aren't just for fun. It's court evidence, books and other media you can't get anywhere else, educational resources that were originally taken down etc. I know the word can't be reclaimed, but at least don't call these twats "hackers".

[kon]

What those scumbags get hacking such an important library?

[SomeCanine]

Something is fishy about this whole situation. Either the site admins have NO CLUE how to secure their own website or they're in on the problem.

[leftymclefterson]

This smells of attackers...but I am really disappointed in IAs failure to take security seriously

I hope we have backups somewhere...

[iLife]

Attacking internet archive is equivalent to attacking a news station that’s there to record, you don’t do it and it’ll make you look bad in everyone’s eyes

[giantasparagus]

You'd think the internet would join together and do the opposite to protect whats left.

[a.coincidence.theorist]

during election season? gee, i wonder...

[mauldothelastcrafter]

I wouldn't have finished my PhD dissertation without Internet Archive. There are literally dozens of primary and secondary texts I couldn't have accessed without either paying a ridiculous amount of money for a scan or printing a PDF from IA. It's hard to understate how important having a free, central, and independent node of knowledge is to society.

[test-rjvl]

All the world's cyber security experts should unite and offer hand to the Internet Archive.

[nightlust]

Willing to bet it's people being paid by big corpos and such.

[dainyn]

this is like stabbing the nice old man giving out free books on the side of the street and thinking your cool

[noderunner_]

I like to look at the bright side of things. Hopefully they use this as an opportunity to increase their operational security and website resilience. They likely still have all the data and can restore it in full.