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DDoS Attack Takes Down World’s Largest Digital Library, Internet Archive

ID: 8531004b-4eef-5eb5-bc4a-61b8ac568d32

STIX ID: report--8531004b-4eef-5eb5-bc4a-61b8ac568d32

Feed Name: The Cyber Express

Threat Score
82/100

Date Published: 2024-10-14

Date Updated: 2026-04-23

Author: Ashish Khaitan

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The Internet Archive confirmed a multi-vector cyberattack on October 9 that resulted in a data breach exposing roughly 31 million users' email addresses and salted-encrypted passwords, website defacement via a JavaScript library, and follow-on DDoS attacks allegedly claimed by a group called SN_BLACKMETA; services were taken offline while the organization investigates and hardens security.

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