The Internet Archive, a digital library of internet content, has been hit by a catastrophic security breach. On Wednesday afternoon, visitors to the site were greeted with a pop-up message claiming the site had been h…

The breach is the latest in a series of attacks on the Internet Archive. In May, the site was DDoS'd, and Jason Scott, an archivist and software curator at the Internet Archive, has previously posted about attacks see…

According to Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) operator Troy Hunt, a file containing "email addresses, screen names, password change timestamps, Bcrypt-hashed passwords, and other internal data" for 31 million unique email add…

The Internet Archive has disabled the JS library, scrubbed its systems, and upgraded security. In a post on X, Kahle confirmed the breach and said the site was experiencing a DDoS attack, which had been fended off for…