internet archive hacked! (archive.org)

[DarkerAds]

hopefully they recover and keep going

this might just be another attack against free information

 

[VisualA]

Thats something we're going to see a lot more of

 

[Dopious]

It was just a matter of time, lot of visitors.

 

[xReminisce]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ne...-hacked-data-breach-impacts-31-million-users/

we are all dead

 

[VisualA]

> News of the breach began circulating Wednesday afternoon after visitors to archive.org began seeing a JavaScript alert created by the hacker, stating that the Internet Archive was breached.

Well that was considerate of him.

 

[4440]

I feel the same as this comment: "Hacking the archive has the same feel as shooting a medic on the battlefield .."

Why hack internet archive? don't you guys have better targets?

 

[1SEOWarrior]

I feel the same as this comment: "Hacking the archive has the same feel as shooting a medic on the battlefield .."

Why hack internet archive? don't you guys have better targets?

I think they took it as a pilot project.

 

[DarkerAds]

I feel the same as this comment: "Hacking the archive has the same feel as shooting a medic on the battlefield .."

Why hack internet archive? don't you guys have better targets?

exactly

I think they took it as a pilot project.

dont think so tbh

 

[MrDenz]

I feel the same as this comment: "Hacking the archive has the same feel as shooting a medic on the battlefield .."

Why hack internet archive? don't you guys have better targets?

For real, that was the first thing I thought of.

Like, what's the point?

I guess someone wants all the expired articles for themselves!

 

[4440]

For real, that was the first thing I thought of.

Like, what's the point?

I guess someone wants all the expired articles for themselves!

Shh, I still use and scrape expired articles till this day.
I am glad everyone is running AI now and forgetting about expired articles which leaves this area less crowded.
Anyways, it is hard and time-consuming to filter out good quality expired articles, though...

 

[DarkerAds]

Anyways, it is hard and time-consuming to filter out good quality expired articles, though...

you can train ai models + ai workflows to do just that

 

[4440]

you can train ai models + ai workflows to do just that

I have used AI, but there are some cases where manual filtering is more suitable when dealing with expired content; it's hard to describe.

 

[tylero]

Google will take the highest hit from this. That's what they get for using a third party archive service.

 

[OccultKingdoms]

you can train ai models + ai workflows to do just that

The problem is you need to understand that which in gpt-3 times wasn't easy

Today you can do that in many cloud based things. Aws, gc, sagemaker, vertex google, azure.

Maybe I'll code a chat bot like Kira of @lucky.sparks

Sounds easy.

 

[umbreno]

Oh and are they distrbuting malware too. That would explain alot - my av blocked a connection to an archive url the other day. If was a bit baffling even for a false positive.

 

[DarkerAds]

other day.

it seems it was recent the attack, not days ago

 

[saruhkhan]

do you have any other alternatives besides archive.org?

 

[OccultKingdoms]

do you have any other alternatives besides archive.org?

Torrents

 

[jimbobo2779]

Torrents

For website snapshots? Is that a thing?

 

[UnusualSubstance]

Yup got that dreaded email from have I been pwned.