Internet Archive Hit By Data Breach; 31 Million User Records...

The website's services are currently offline temporarily for internal systems upgrade. Wayback Machine hosting site Internet Archive has recently suffered a data breach, with hackers compromising a user authentication database containing 31 million unique records. The breach became publicly known after visitors to archive.org noticed a JavaScript alert on the website, created by the attacker, warning of the incident. "Have you ever felt like the Internet Archive runs on sticks and is constantly on the verge of suffering a catastrophic security breach? It just happened," the message read. "See 31 million of you on HIBP!" The "HIBP" referred to in the alert stands for Have I Been Pwned (HIBP), a data breach notification service run by cybersecurity expert Troy Hunt, who later confirmed the attack. According to Hunt, a file named "ia_users.sql" was shared with HIBP nine days before the b...