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Those corporate scums (Hach*tte, H*rperCollins, P*nguin…) paid for it. I am 100% sure. Don’t prove me wrong.
They claimed to be pro-Palestinian because they want Israel to be on the right
Friendly reminder: If you haven’t diversified your passwords yet, get a password manger and do it!
Its not an if someone gets hacks, its when.
I don’t know if this hack included any user and password, but if it did, they will try the combo on other sites.
KeePassXC, works great but you are responsible for your own file and syncing it between devices. (I use syncthing, but a cloud drive is a viable sync method, its all encyptyed) (iOS options limited)
Bitwarden, great if you don’t want to worry about the file and everything syncs on its own. (There is a self hosted version, if you prefer).
Avoid anything paid or tied to a major corporation, they have proven time and again they cn not be trusted to keep our data safe.
I’m using 1Password and have been happy using it. Any reason not to use it, aside from not being open source?
For something that literally holds all your credentials, just it being closed source should be enough of a concern.
Reminds me of those people who tested how fireproof the library of Alexandria was. Thanks a lot assholes!
It’s always heart breaking to see IA in trouble :(
Yeah, what kind of hacktivist group would go against Internet Archive? Not activists for good at least.
Edit: according to another article they are a pro-Palestinian group. Still not sure about their motives for Internet Archive.
BlackMeta, also known as SN_BlackMeta, appeared in November 2023 and has a history of claiming responsibility for attacks against organizations in Israel, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States. In May, the group claimed responsibility for a multiday denial-of-service attack on the San Francisco-based Internet Archive. In April, the group claimed to have attacked the Israel-based infrastructure of the Orange Group, a French provider of telecommunication services in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. The group also targeted organizations in Saudi Arabia, Canada, and the United Arab Emirates.
hmm, a faux hacktivist group certainly would be an excellent and easy way for an intelligence agency to try and redirect anger. hypothetically speaking, of course.
When someone asked the group who claimed responsibility on Twitter, they said this:
They are under attack because the archive belongs to the USA, and as we all know, this horrendous and hypocritical government supports the genocide that is being carried out by the terrorist state of “Israel”.
Later they made a long Tweet saying even more.
I’ll be fully honest, I do not get it. At all.
You’d think they’d be attacking some government website or even FAANG if they really wanted to say something.
Looking through their feed, seems like most of their attacks are DDOS. Guess IA was one of the few they actually managed to breach.Picking on easy targets is lame.
Yeah me neither. I don’t think they understand the consequences of their own actions either. All that matters to them is “USA bad, <random pro Palestinian country> good”. They’d probably also burn down the fields in a country they import their food from.
They’re not hacktivists, they’re just assholes.
*asshacks
Asstivists?
Probably corps
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Archives work against information control. “Who controls the present now controls the past”. They wouldn’t like archived versions of things get in the way of their very, very expensive narratives they are pushing, now would they?
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IA is a pillar of internet activism, and an exceptional instance of the spirit of the web pioneers. No real hacktivist would take them on. These guys are spooks, black hat, or corporate actors.
What user data do people have on ia?
Haven’t looked much into the breach, but probably the biggest issue is passwords. If unencrypted, and a user uses the same generic password for their email or bank or whatever, that possess a serious concern.
This highlights the importance of not reusing passwords
Edit: looks like passwords were hashed with bcrypt, which is really quite excellent. Very unlikely anybody is getting actual passwords from this leak.
If someones reusing their passwords then their passwords will likely be found very easily with rainbow tables.
Rainbows tables are mostly irrelevant lately. Well at least if u follow proper salt and proper reccommendationa.
If your password is long/complex enough, it ain’t going to be on a rainbow table. But yeah.
People reusing passwords probably also aren’t using long and complex passwords.
why not? they may have one long pass that they remember and use for everything, can’t be bothered to remember more of them.
Hopefully they didn’t store to much financial info from donations, otherwise I am a bit coocked…
This is why monero should be the future.
But why?
if assholes are willing to ransom a pediatric burns hospital for money, they would have the required lack of empathy to attack the IA.
no idea
but google cache is being shut down, then google announces they’ll be participating with IA.
now this.
really not a good time in history for our ability to easily document web history to be getting messed with.
I just hope they backed up geocities
Google shut down their cache and “teamed up” with IA to offload the work to someone else’s server, so they don’t pay for it.
I feel like google cache has been gone for years. Remember when you could choose to see the cached version of almost any site that came up in your search results? I want to have nice things again.
Horrible people like to see the greatest things humanity has ever done burn to the ground. That’s my guess.
I mean in terms of a hacking accomplishment, it’s like you beat up a disabled person. 😐
Odd throwback to the epilepsy website hack.
well well well, the archiver becomes the archivee
