The Internet Archive, a popular digital library known for its Wayback Machine, was hacked and suffered a data breach that reportedly exposed 31 million user accounts.
Founder Brewster Kahle confirmed in a post on the social media platform X that a cyberattack on Tuesday knocked the website offline. He also said that usernames, emails, and encrypted passwords had been compromised. He explained that hackers launched a Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attack against the library. This type of attack floods a website with excessive traffic, causing it to crash or become inaccessible, according to the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency.
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Source: MSN News
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