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Internet Archive leaks user info and succumbs to DDoS

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Feed Name: The Register (Security)

Threat Score
70/100

Date Published: 2024-10-10

Date Updated: 2026-04-26

Author: Simon Sharwood

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The Internet Archive suffered a cyber incident in which a DDoS attack caused outages and a simultaneous security breach exposed roughly 31.08 million user records (emails, screen names, and bcrypt password hashes); attackers also defaced the site by injecting a malicious JavaScript library, and the organization is disabling the library and conducting remediation.

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