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On May 19th of 2017 The Archive's Development Manager Katie Barrett made a blog post detailing that anyone who'd made their accounts ''before 2012'' had to change their passwords as the site had been breached with user's public information and lightly encrypted passwords being leaked. <ref>{{Cite web |last=Barrett |first=Katie |date=2017-05-19 |title=Re: User account breach {{!}} Internet Archive Blogs |url=https://blog.archive.org/2017/05/19/re-user-account-breach/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250520030556/https://blog.archive.org/2017/05/19/re-user-account-breach/ |archive-date=2025-05-20 |access-date=2025-08-16 |website=[[Internet Archive]]}}</ref> | On May 19th of 2017 The Archive's Development Manager Katie Barrett made a blog post detailing that anyone who'd made their accounts ''before 2012'' had to change their passwords as the site had been breached with user's public information and lightly encrypted passwords being leaked. <ref>{{Cite web |last=Barrett |first=Katie |date=2017-05-19 |title=Re: User account breach {{!}} Internet Archive Blogs |url=https://blog.archive.org/2017/05/19/re-user-account-breach/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250520030556/https://blog.archive.org/2017/05/19/re-user-account-breach/ |archive-date=2025-05-20 |access-date=2025-08-16 |website=[[Internet Archive]]}}</ref> | ||
On October 9th of 2024 users on the Internet Archive get pop-ups that the website had been hacked with notifications appearing from the perpetrators at around 9PM CST <ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-10-09 |title=Dark Web Informer on X: " | On October 9th of 2024 users on the Internet Archive get pop-ups that the website had been hacked with notifications appearing from the perpetrators at around 9PM CST <ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-10-09 |title=Dark Web Informer on X |url=https://x.com/DarkWebInformer/status/1844123206413943274 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/ADnLW |archive-date=2024-10-12 |access-date=2025-08-16 |website=[[Twitter]]}}</ref>, and an hour later Troy Hunt of HaveIBeenPwned would confirm the breach. <ref>{{Cite web |last=Hunt |first=Troy |date=2024-10-09 |title=Troy Hunt on X: "Hi folks, yes, I'm aware of this. I've been in communication with the Internet Archive over the last few days re the data breach, didn't know the site was defaced until people started flagging it with me just now. More soon." / X |url=https://x.com/troyhunt/status/1844136762727448644 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/R8bRB |archive-date=2024-08-10 |access-date=2025-08-16 |website=[[Twitter]]}}</ref> | ||
Around 31 Million Users were affected with their User IDs, Emails, Encrypted Passwords and Usernames being leaked in it. <ref>{{Cite news |last=LeClair |first=Dave |date=2024-10-11 |title=31 million users impacted by Internet Archive data breach — what we know |url=https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/online-security/31-million-users-impacted-by-internet-archive-data-breach-what-we-know |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241109231711/https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/online-security/31-million-users-impacted-by-internet-archive-data-breach-what-we-know |archive-date=2024-11-09 |access-date=2025-08-16 |work=Tom's Guide}}</ref> | |||
Around 31 Million Users were affected with their User IDs, Emails, Encrypted Passwords and Usernames being leaked in it. <ref>{{Cite news |last=LeClair |first=Dave |date=2024-10-11 |title= | |||
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