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Internet Archive user info stolen in cyberattack, succumbs to DDoS

ID: e7797c1c-3561-5aa5-a9a3-e572d38c10c4

STIX ID: report--e7797c1c-3561-5aa5-a9a3-e572d38c10c4

Feed Name: The Register (Security)

Threat Score
75/100

Date Published: 2024-10-10

Date Updated: 2026-04-26

Author: Simon Sharwood

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The Internet Archive suffered a DDoS outage and a data breach affecting roughly 31.1 million user accounts; attackers exfiltrated contact details and bcrypt-hashed passwords and used a poisoned JavaScript library to deface the site. The Archive has disabled the malicious library and is investigating while scrubbing systems and upgrading security; it is unclear whether the DDoS and breach are related.

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