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Internet Archive hacked, data breach impacts 31 million users(www.bleepingcomputer.com)

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hedge@beehaw.org
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Update from Mastodon:

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toothpicks@beehaw.org
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You sunk my battleship

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hedge@beehaw.org
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Seems to be up now.

EDIT: And down again. 🙁

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barsoap@lemm.ee
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The only reason I can think of to get that data is to circumvent archive.org’s limitations on renting out stuff so your bots can slurp books without getting throttled.

That is, my best guess is that this was pirates seeing if they can’t add to libgen.

Or it’s a “prove you can do stuff” kind of deal.

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Eggyhead@fedia.io
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I’m inclined to think some corporate entity is somehow tied to this based on nothing but my gut.

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Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl
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Muffi@programming.dev
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Managers sign off on worse and more risky decisions all the time. They just know when to not leave a paper trail.

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