internetarchiveOct 18, 2024
"Why kick the cat?" - @brewsterkahle, speaking to Daniel Wu of the Washington Post about the attacks against the Internet Archive ➡️ https://wapo.st/4f998w2
The world’s largest internet archive is under siege — and fighting back

Hackers struck the Internet Archive, leaking millions of users’s data and causing founder Brewster Kahle to take a sprawling library of online history offline.

The Washington Post
Dog/* (Justice For Jacksfilms)Oct 20, 2024
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@internetarchive @brewsterkahle

Why didn't the fucking cat rotate their leaked API keys?

Also: correct me if I'm wrong, but stuff from their GitLab getting leaked is new information. Previously, news outlets only reported about stolen user credentials.

Oct 20, 2024 at 7:32amWeb
Show threadDekkiaOct 20, 2024

@internetarchive @brewsterkahle

> These emails come after BleepingComputer repeatedly tried to warn the Internet Archive that their source code was stolen through a GitLab authentication token that was exposed online for almost two years.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/internet-archive-breached-again-through-stolen-access-tokens/

You know what? Go fuck yourself and your stupid website. Negligence like this feels criminal at this point.

Internet Archive breached again through stolen access tokens

The Internet Archive was breached again, this time on their Zendesk email support platform after repeated warnings that threat actors stole exposed GitLab authentication tokens.

BleepingComputer