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.

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      I think an unaffiliated group also ran a DDoS attack on the site.

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        This is the equivalent of people beating up Mr. Rogers and stealing his wallet

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

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      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.

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    Can we come up with the worst possible hacker nickname for this trash human.

    WBL hacker” world’s biggest loser or some shit