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Internet Archive breach exposes 31 million users
The Internet Archive was defaced and its user database of 31 million accounts was stolen, followed by DDoS attacks.
- Organisation
- Internet Archive
- Disclosed
- 9 October 2024
- Affected
- 31,000,000
- Data
- Emails, usernames, hashed passwords
- Attacker
- Unknown
- Severity
- major
- Region
- Global
- Source
- BleepingComputer ↗
Cite this
Nuffield Consulting, “Internet Archive breach exposes 31 million users”, The Daily Tech Wire outage & breach log, 9 Oct 2024. https://techwire.nuffieldconsulting.com/incidents/2024-10-09-internet-archive-breach/ (retrieved 15 Nov 2026).
This entry summarises public reporting. Please also cite the original source: BleepingComputer, https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/internet-archive-hacked-data-breach-impacts-31-million-users.
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