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Good evening to everyone except the excrement who just hacked the Internet Archive.

Like 10 October at 0:20 | Open on infosec.exchange

10 comments

Amber :v_trans:

@Tarah@infosec.exchange Yep 😭

10 October at 0:26 | Open on transgirl.cafe

@Tarah there’s a senselessness about this that’s particularly upsetting. Every breach is bad but this one has genuinely made me sad.

10 October at 0:48 | Open on mstdn.ca

Jonah Gibberish

@nbailey @Tarah this is being done by bad actors on behalf of wealthy copyright holders

10 October at 13:23 | Open on kolektiva.social

sadele2

Just tried to reset password. Finally got:

"Sorry, we're kinda busy. Server error 504 -- probably because our servers are overloaded right now."

10 October at 0:51 | Open on mastodon.social

Krutonium

@sadele2 @Tarah Someone is DDOS'ing the IA right now.

10 October at 1:11 | Open on social.treehouse.systems

sadele2

@krutonium @Tarah

Yeah, I figured it was that again, or thousands of ppl rushing to change their passwords (less likely). It seems to be okay now

10 October at 8:05 | Open on mastodon.social

Kevin Karhan :verified:

@Tarah why would anyone want to do that anyway?

- It's not as if there's some juicy logins or paywalled exclusives on @internetarchive ...

10 October at 4:18 | Open on infosec.space

jake (he/him) 🇵🇸

@Tarah glad i used hide my email and a randomly generated password

10 October at 4:25 | Open on mastodon.social

Lesley Carhart :unverified:

@Tarah this. Little snots, everyone hates them

10 October at 6:11 | Open on infosec.exchange

Alex White-Robinson

10 October at 6:13 | Open on mastodon.social