It’s always heart breaking to see IA in trouble :(
Yeah, what kind of hacktivist group would go against Internet Archive? Not activists for good at least.
Edit: according to another article they are a pro-Palestinian group. Still not sure about their motives for Internet Archive.
BlackMeta, also known as SN_BlackMeta, appeared in November 2023 and has a history of claiming responsibility for attacks against organizations in Israel, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States. In May, the group claimed responsibility for a multiday denial-of-service attack on the San Francisco-based Internet Archive. In April, the group claimed to have attacked the Israel-based infrastructure of the Orange Group, a French provider of telecommunication services in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. The group also targeted organizations in Saudi Arabia, Canada, and the United Arab Emirates.
When someone asked the group who claimed responsibility on Twitter, they said this:
They are under attack because the archive belongs to the USA, and as we all know, this horrendous and hypocritical government supports the genocide that is being carried out by the terrorist state of “Israel”.
Later they made a long Tweet saying even more.
I’ll be fully honest, I do not get it. At all.
You’d think they’d be attacking some government website or even FAANG if they really wanted to say something.
Looking through their feed, seems like most of their attacks are DDOS. Guess IA was one of the few they actually managed to breach.Picking on easy targets is lame.
Yeah me neither. I don’t think they understand the consequences of their own actions either. All that matters to them is “USA bad, <random pro Palestinian country> good”. They’d probably also burn down the fields in a country they import their food from.
When faced with an unstoppable death machine, you don’t attack it is impervious. You savage it were it hurts most.
They’re not hacktivists, they’re just assholes.
*asshacks
Asstivists?
hmm, a faux hacktivist group certainly would be an excellent and easy way for an intelligence agency to try and redirect anger. hypothetically speaking, of course.
Probably corps
Reminds me of those people who tested how fireproof the library of Alexandria was. Thanks a lot assholes!
fucking edgelords… IA has trouble staying on its feet without this sorta crap.
this has “kicking puppies for palestine” energy - not sure where I’ve read this but it’s an apt analogy.
What user data do people have on ia?
Hopefully they didn’t store to much financial info from donations, otherwise I am a bit coocked…
This is why monero should be the future.
Haven’t looked much into the breach, but probably the biggest issue is passwords. If unencrypted, and a user uses the same generic password for their email or bank or whatever, that possess a serious concern.
This highlights the importance of not reusing passwords
Edit: looks like passwords were hashed with bcrypt, which is really quite excellent. Very unlikely anybody is getting actual passwords from this leak.
If someones reusing their passwords then their passwords will likely be found very easily with rainbow tables.
If your password is long/complex enough, it ain’t going to be on a rainbow table. But yeah.
People reusing passwords probably also aren’t using long and complex passwords.
why not? they may have one long pass that they remember and use for everything, can’t be bothered to remember more of them.
That’s probably correct, horse battery staple.
But why?
if assholes are willing to ransom a pediatric burns hospital for money, they would have the required lack of empathy to attack the IA.
well well well, the archiver becomes the archivee
