{"id":197439,"date":"2024-10-11T09:23:46","date_gmt":"2024-10-11T14:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/internet-archive-data-breach-exposes-more-than-31-million-user-accounts-reports"},"modified":"2024-10-11T09:23:46","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T14:23:46","slug":"internet-archive-data-breach-exposes-more-than-31-million-user-accounts-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/internet-archive-data-breach-exposes-more-than-31-million-user-accounts-reports","title":{"rendered":"Internet Archive data breach exposes more than 31 million user accounts: reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/internet-archive-data-breach-exposes-more-than-31-million-user-accounts-reports.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(NEXSTAR) \u2014 The <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/\">Internet Archive<\/a>, a popular digital library known for its Wayback Machine, was hacked and suffered a data breach that reportedly exposed 31 million user accounts.<\/p>\n<p>Founder Brewster Kahle <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brewster_kahle\/status\/1844133492453671192\">confirmed in a post<\/a> on the social media platform X that a cyberattack on Tuesday knocked the website offline. He also <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brewster_kahle\/status\/1844183111514603812\">said<\/a> that usernames, emails, and encrypted passwords had been compromised.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cServices are currently stopped to upgrade internal systems,\u201d Kahle wrote in a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brewster_kahle\/status\/1844485102312751421\">Thursday update<\/a>. \u201cWe are working to restore services as quickly and safely as possible. Sorry for this disruption.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(NEXSTAR) \u2014 The Internet Archive, a popular digital library known for its Wayback Machine, was hacked and suffered a data breach that reportedly exposed 31 million user accounts. Founder Brewster Kahle confirmed in a post on the social media platform X that a cyberattack on Tuesday knocked the website offline. He also said that usernames, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1625,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-encryption","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}