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Internet Archive: Security breach alert

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Re: Internet Archive: Security breach alert

#3

Post by uticus »

ewenjo wrote: post #2

Just noticed the site now alerts this: > Have you ever felt like the Internet Archive runs on sticks and is constantly on the verge of suffering a catastrophic security breach? It just happened. See 31 million of you on HIBP!

Is it a genuine alert, or hacking artifact?

Sometimes with friendly / attempt-at-humorous error messages it’s difficult to tell

Re: Internet Archive: Security breach alert

#4

Post by n_i_k_h_i_l »

uticus wrote: post #3
ewenjo wrote: post #2

Just noticed the site now alerts this: > Have you ever felt like the Internet Archive runs on sticks and is constantly on the verge of suffering a catastrophic security breach? It just happened. See 31 million of you on HIBP!

Is it a genuine alert, or hacking artifact? Sometimes with friendly / attempt-at-humorous error messages it’s difficult to tell

It's a literal window.alert()

Re: Internet Archive: Security breach alert

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Post by ewenjo »

pityJuke wrote: post #8

This thread is looking like it'll be one of the first places this incident will be documented (seems to be on the top of Google). Already there are two new users just for this.

Yeah, I was looking around, but saw no mention of it anywhere until I realized it just happened.
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