The Internet Archive, a nonprofit organization that digitizes and archives web pages and other materials, was attacked on Wednesday. Several users, including The Verge, faced the following pop-up when visiting the site: It just happened. Meet 31 million people at HIBP!”
Data breach notification site Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) later acknowledged the breach and announced that 31 unique email addresses and usernames had been stolen. So does Brewster Carre, a self-proclaimed digital librarian who founded the Internet Archive in 1996.
Indeed, after related distributed denial-of-service attacks against the service (one hacktivist group claimed responsibility for, but not the other), Kahl said Wednesday that He suggested further attacks could occur during the night. The organization “so far” has “avoided” the DDOS attack, cleaned its systems and upgraded its security, he wrote to X. “As much as we know, we will share more.”