This is sad. The Internet Archive and Wikipedia are two pillars for the web, the only big websites that are not controlled by big corporations.
this post was submitted on 09 Oct 2024
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There's no "may" about it. The Ars Technica article indicates that the Internet Archive's front page was (briefly) altered in addition to the account data being stolen.
Why do we have to sign up to every fucking thing and it's brother? Everything gets hacked eventually. Why don't we just hand over our data to the hackers and cut out the middle man?
I have an account because I've shared abandonware.
you have an account because you just wanted to complain.
we are not the same.
They were right
Yeah I got it too, it sucks
Hopefully i didn't had an account
The Internet Archive is being DDOSed for the lulz.
Digging deeper into the comments it seems someone found the message was from a compromised polyfill code that was running on IA. Now the website is down from a ddos. From what I can see there's no reason to believe their servers and the data therein have been compromised.
I did get an email from HIBP so at the very least they got my email
Corpos getting mad Internet Archive backdoors their copywrong.
Ah great I made an account on there recently too
Of all the things to target, did they really have to go for the IA - the organisation that literally got into trouble with the man for helping children get access to books during the pandemic.
Does this hacker kick puppies and steal sweets from babies too?
I genuinely don't know... there doesn't seem to be any ongoing discussion of who or why are these people targeting IA. There are other people who are trying to rescue data stored on IA
Hope this would be over soon...
Most attacks aren't targeted. They hit anyone they can.
Yeah, I've see people speculating that it could be some corporate hit-job on behalf of book publishers, and I get it, that exotic possibility is attractive, but reality is usually much more mundane. It's likely to just be some randos doing it for the lulz and IA was vulnerable for whatever reason. Book publishers have sadly been enjoying plenty of success in court against IA. They don't need to get their hands dirty.
Brother this message is very targeted.
Hacker is probably funded by corporate book sellers who want IA shut down.
According to the article some org called SN_blackmeta claimed and a Google search seems to suggest they are a pro Palestinian group based out of Russia with makes zero sense so I’m gonna go with random Russian cunts are doing it, but you might be right as well with corpos mad about IA Edit: the article -> https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/9/24266419/internet-archive-ddos-attack-pop-up-message
Russian cunts
Kinda repeating yourself here.
That group description reeks of "Russian plants placed to make the pro-Palestine crowd look bad" not gonna lie - especially since a pro-Palestinian hacktivist group would have a sum total of 0 reasons to target IA (and be cocky dicks about it)
Plenty of pro-Palestine protesters have targeted allies (or at least uninvolved third parties) in real life, ie attacking pride parades, so unfortunately I don't see why being on the internet would make things any different. Some people are just desperate to be heard and habitually pick the worst possible way to convince others to listen. Not ruling out intentional shit-disturbers but it's never only that.
Without knowing specifics, I'm going to assume the "attack pride parades" bit is the people protesting against corporatized pride parades that are heavily sponsored by genocide-funding corporations.
i'm gonna go with china, russia, or 'middle eastern' (of some sort), butthurt over availability of certain user-uploaded content.
probably deploys ransomware to children's hospitals