The Internet Archive, a nonprofit organization that digitizes and archives materials such as web pages, came under attack Wednesday. Several users, including The Verge, have encountered the following pop-up when visiting the site: “Have you ever felt like your Internet archive was constantly running and constantly on the brink of catastrophic security breaches? It just happened. Meet 31 million of you at HIBP!”
Data breach notification site Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) later confirmed the breach, saying 31 unique email addresses and usernames were stolen. So did Brewster Kahle, a self-described digital librarian who founded the Internet Archive in 1996.
In fact, following a distributed denial-of-service attack on the service (a hacktivist group claimed responsibility for one, but not the other), Kahle suggested Wednesday night that there could be more attacks. He wrote about “We will share more as we know it.”
