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The Internet Archive Breach: Over 31 Million User Accounts Exposed

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The Internet Archive Breach: Over 31 Million User Accounts Exposed

The Internet Archive, a non-profit digital library best known for its Wayback Machine, has disclosed a major data breach affecting over 31 million users as well as a series of distributed denial-of-service attacks. On the afternoon of Oct. 9, visitors of The Internet Archive started seeing pop-up messages that read: “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…

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National Public Data Breach: 2.7bn Records Leaked on Dark Web

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National Public Data Breach: 2.7bn Records Leaked on Dark Web

In August, a hacker dumped 2.7 billion data records, including social security numbers, on a dark web forum, in one of the biggest breaches in history. The data may have been stolen from background-checking service National Public Data at least four months ago. Each record has a person’s name, mailing address, and SSN, but some also contain other sensitive information, such as names of relatives, according to Bloomberg. How the data was stolen This breach…

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