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10/16/2024

DDoS Attack Takes Down World’s Largest Digital Library, Internet Archive

Homeland Security Today

The Internet Archive has faced a serious cybersecurity crisis that has taken both its Archive.org and OpenLibrary.org platforms offline. The Internet Archive cyberattack, characterized by a data breach and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, has raised concerns about the integrity and security of one of the largest digital libraries in existence.

The Internet Archive, a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving the world’s knowledge, was targeted by a cyberattack that has resulted in a data breach involving the exposure of user credentials for approximately 31 million users. The data compromised includes email addresses and salted-encrypted passwords.

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