Davey Winder reports:
Hackers have compromised the Internet’s past, the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, stealing 31 million passwords and launching a massive Distributed Denial of Service attack in the process. It is unclear if the two security incidents, the compromise of the Internet Archive’s authentication database containing registered member details, including hashed passwords, and the denial of service attack, are related. However, the evidence does seem to be pointing in the direction of this being a targeted attack by the same threat actor.
The first clue that something was wrong came from the service itself, with the display of a JavaScript alert popup for visitors to the archive.org site which read:
“Have you ever felt like the Internet Archive runs on sticks and is constantly on the verge of suffering a catastrophic security breach? It just happened. See 31 million of you on HIBP!”
Read more at Forbes.