Internet Archive’s “The Wayback Machine” has suffered a data breach after a threat actor compromised the website and stole a user authentication database containing 31 million unique records.

  • irish_link@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Who the fuck wants to hack them? You want something and they have it, it’s yours! That’s the entire point!

    • TootSweet@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Tinfoil hat mode engaged.

      Maybe it was big entertainment. Disney doesn’t like that Archive.org’s collection of the original Transformers cartoon competes with such Disney+ hits as She-Hulk and The Jungle Book 2. So they’re doing shady things to make their problem at least faulter if not go away entirely.