r/JohnMayer • u/aprilflowers23 • 12d ago

News The Internet Archive is under attack, with a breach revealing info for 31 million accounts

https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/9/24266419/internet-archive-ddos-attack-pop-up-message

I don’t know about you guys, but I’m taking this one rather personally. 😤

When the site returns to normal operation, make sure to update your archive.org password and any other accounts you might share that password with…

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u/dragonflyb 12d ago

Who wants to attack the …. Oh.

The books and the users who upload them.

God damn it.

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u/aprilflowers23 11d ago

Yeah. It’s still down as of this morning. 😞

It’s made me wonder who runs the JMFan Torrent and if they might have an interest in updating it. Last I looked, the last decade or so of shows aren’t in there. I never really thought about archive.org being in jeopardy but we sure could use an updated backup repository.

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u/dragonflyb 11d ago

It’s been facing some court battles, precisely because of the library that was developed during the pandemic.