22 Nov, 2024

Internet Archive breached again through stolen access tokens

The Internet Archive was breached again, this time on their Zendesk email support platform after repeated warnings that threat actors stole exposed GitLab authentication tokens. Since last night, GeekFeed has received numerous messages from people who received replies to their old Internet Archive removal requests, warning that the organization has been breached as they did […]

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Internet Archive hacked, data breach impacts 31 million users

Internet Archive’s “The Wayback Machine” has suffered a data breach after a threat actor compromised the website and stole a user authentication database containing 31 million unique records. 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. […]

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