Attack of the big hakeri hit the Archives of the Internet, leading to a kompromentimin of the data belonging to millions of users. The confirmation of the official came up directly from the home page of the website, or which, for a brief moment, it appeared in a pop-up, which reported a “catastrophic infringement of security”.
Later on, as well as the entire site as well as the Car Wayback he was taken away from the outside of the line of the attack began using google for search. The message is detected by the hackers on the internet confirmed the theft of information related to the 31 million users, including email addresses, names, usernames, and passwords associated with them in the end.
Because of the vidheshin, the data will have been completed on the site of the well-known Have I Been Pwned (HIBP), a portal that allows you to verify independently whether your sensitive data has been violated. Practical, the safety and security of the site, in a word, Troy Hunt, there's no denying the news, but it has been confirmed that it has received a data base of 6.4 GB, contains all of the information stolen by the users, for the defendant.
Therefore, it is now possible to control whether the data is an unfortunate victim to fall into the group of those who have been stolen from the home, connecting to the portal in question, HIBP, by entering the address of your e-mail and waiting for a response quickly.
However, Brewster Kahle, the founder of the Archives of the Internet, did not make any statement, but confirmed only that the organization really is dealing with an attack DDoS, and how technical you are doing all that is possible to restore the website as quickly as possible.
The attack was also confirmed by Jason Scott, recorder of the Records of the Website, who then went on to say that an amount of time, the traffic to the internet is hit the face, forcing him, in fact, stay off the line. For those of you not in the know, the attacks began using google for search is often used by hackers in an effort to be overloaded so the exponential servers and one uebsajti to a certain extent, it becomes out of reach.
According to what reported on the well-known american on The Verge, this attack is taken out of the account, @Sn_darkmeta by the social networking Israel. The same with the user specified that he was responsible for the attack, another DDoS on the same web page, which happened to may of last year.
We are facing an organisation, the non-profit Internet Archive, based in San Francisco, but in what it turned out, the reason will was still in politics. We will see how it will evolve the story, and if the investigators are able to track the originator of the attack. At the same time, and advice to users is to immediately change the password and account, and to examine the involvement of the real in the'tan creepy.
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