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Internet Archive hacked, data breach impacts 31 million users

ID: 504e1a42-a298-5cf4-90ad-af776131fe9a

STIX ID: report--504e1a42-a298-5cf4-90ad-af776131fe9a

Feed Name: Bleeping Computer

Threat Score
75/100

Date Published: 2024-10-09

Date Updated: 2026-04-20

Author: Lawrence Abrams

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Internet Archive suffered a confirmed data breach resulting in the theft of an authentication database with about 31 million unique records (emails, screen names, bcrypt-hashed passwords and timestamps), site defacement via a malicious JavaScript library, and concurrent DDoS attacks; a later incident involved attackers using stolen Zendesk access tokens to access member data.

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