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Internet Archive Hacked, Data Breach Impacts 31 Million Users

Internet Archive’s “The Wayback Machine” has suffered a data breach after a threat actor compromised the website and stole a user authentication database containing 31 million unique records, BleepingComputer reported. News of the breach began circulating Wednesday afternoon after visitors to archive.org began seeing a JavaScript alert created by the hacker, stating that the Internet Archive was breached. “Have you

Internet Archive Loses Its Appeal Of A Major Copyright Case

The Internet Archive has lost a major legal battle — in a decision that could have significant impact on the future of internet history. Today, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled against that long-running digital archive, upholding an earlier ruling in Hatchette v. Internet Archive that found that one of the Internet Archive’s book digitization projects