Technical News Office –There has been a major cyber attack on users. A pro-Palestinian hacker has claimed responsibility for a major cyberattack on the Internet Archive digital library. In this cyber attack, hackers obtained the personal data of 31 million (around 3.1 crore) users. Users’ email addresses, screen names and encrypted passwords were damaged in the cyberattack. Given the seriousness of the threat, cybersecurity experts have advised users to change their password immediately.
Website visitors received cyberattack message
According to the report, this attack took place on October 9. In this, the hackers stole the details of millions of users by tampering with the JavaScript library on the Internet Archive website. After the attack, a pop-up message was visible to site visitors. In this pop-up message, users were asked if they had ever felt like they were very close to a major security breach. There was also a reply in the post, in which users were informed that there had been a major cyberattack against them.
6.4 GB database
This message appears on the screen Have I been connected? This means that HIBP is connected to the service because the hacker had also given the message “31 million of you are under HIBP” to the website visitor on the screen. HIBP founder Troy Hunt confirmed he received a 6.4 GB database file from the attackers. Along with this, Hunt also confirmed that half of the files found in the database contain email addresses that have also been seen in previous data leaks.
Security is improved
Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle acknowledged the breach and ongoing distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on the platform. He posted an X and said the JS library has been disabled for now, so security can be improved.
This group of hackers took responsibility
An account named SN_BlackMeta claimed responsibility for this breach. This hacker group said their campaign lasted 5 hours and was quite successful.
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