The Internet Archive taken down by DDoS attacks2024-10-10 04:58 by DanielaTags: DDoS, Internet Archive
A hacker appears to have broken into the Internet Archive, stealing information on millions of users. On Wednesday, the main domain for the site briefly displayed a pop-up, claiming the Internet Archive had suffered a "catastrophic security breach." According to security researcher Troy Hunt, the DDoS attack came just as the Internet Archive was preparing to disclose a previous breach of its site that resulted in the theft of more than 31 million records. Hunt, who runs the haveibeenpwned service, said that the timing of the two attacks appears to be "entirely coincidental" and that there are likely "multiple parties" involved. " It's clearly not just one attack," he wrote. Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle provided a public update on Wednesday evening in a post on the social network X. "What we know: DDOS attack - fended off for now; defacement of our website via JS library; breach of usernames/email/salted-encrypted passwords. What we've done: Disabled the JS library, scrubbing systems, upgrading security. Will share more as we know it." "Scrubbing systems" refer to services that offer DDoS attack protection by filtering malicious junk traffic so it can't deluge and disrupt a website. The Internet Archive has faced aggressive DDoS attacks numerous times in the past, including in late May. As Kahle wrote on Wednesday: "Yesterday's DDoS attack on @internetarchive repeated today. We are working to bring http://archive.org back online." The hacktivist group known as BlackMeta claimed responsibility for this week's DDoS attacks and said it plans to carry out more against the Internet Archive. Still, the perpetrator of the data breach is not yet known. The Internet Archive has faced battles on many fronts in recent months. In addition to repeated DDoS attacks, the organization is also facing mounting legal challenges. It recently lost an appeal in Hachette v. Internet Archive, a lawsuit brought by book publishers, which argued that its digital lending library violated copyright law. Now it’s facing an existential threat in the form of another copyright lawsuit, this one from music labels, which may result in damages upwards of $621 million if the court rules against the archive. Read more -here-
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