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Internet Archive's support email has now been compromised (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 day ago by GatoEscobar@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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[-] jwiggler@sh.itjust.works 189 points 1 day ago

Hackers acting as if they're doing a public service by bringing down a free publicly accessible tool is a new level of assbackwardness.

If the goal really was to force IA to increase their security, they would've tried to consult with them. This is more about notoriety and chaos and the hackers have no moral ground to stand on.

[-] zante@lemmy.wtf 77 points 1 day ago

Yeah look at me flexing on and underfunded non profit.

Not at all hackers are criminals, but many are idiots.

[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 45 points 1 day ago

was that their stated reason for attacking the internet archive?

to bring awareness to the security breaches?

little fucks.

"I stole your wallet because pockets are so vulnerable. I'm helping."

[-] far_university190@feddit.org 40 points 1 day ago

nobody know true reason

one group claim responsibility on twitter for ddos, reason they are us company and us support genocide in gaza. but from all us company they chose ia? sound like bullshit.

[-] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 13 points 1 day ago

No, it was somehow because they hate NATO

[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 day ago

oh good, that totally makes senseWHAT?!

[-] switchboard_pete@fedia.io 17 points 1 day ago

Hackers acting as if they're doing a public service by bringing down a free publicly accessible tool is a new level of assbackwardness.

are the zendesk hackers the same as the ones who brought down the website initially?

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

those hackers are probably paid by the corporations wanting to bring it down

[-] UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca 4 points 16 hours ago

As much as I probably ideologically stand with you, let's not confirmation bias ourselves into a belief we have no evidence for.

[-] 1984@lemmy.today 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Their emotional maturity is close to zero.

They go after internet archive, such a lame move.

[-] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 day ago

Black hat v grey hat innit

[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 149 points 1 day ago

This person could be damaging corporate infrastructure but he goes after internet archive

[-] huginn@feddit.it 49 points 1 day ago

This guy is outing the archive for terrible security posture by bringing attention to it because they received disclosures and did not fix them.

Don't get shit twisted - he's the hero here. IA fucked up and has been vulnerable to manipulation by any number of corporate or national actors this entire time.

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 34 points 1 day ago

If they were really "the hero", they'd follow the bare minimum of responsible disclosure best practices, and allow 90 days between privately alerting them of the issue and going public with it. Two weeks is absurd.

[-] carpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 day ago

You don't leak a passwords database publicly on the Internet in good faith.

[-] huginn@feddit.it 12 points 1 day ago

Not necessarily the same hacker.

[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 55 points 1 day ago

If this was genuinely done out of love I could understand but due to the legal battles the internet archive is currently being dragged through, I harbor suspicion of their intent.

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 13 points 1 day ago

You sure about that, or are you hypothesizing?

[-] huginn@feddit.it 10 points 1 day ago

There's never certainty when talking about hackers...

That's verbatim the content of the email and the email hack does not appear to be malicious (unlike the ddos or the password breach)

It's more likely that this is 3 different groups than it is a single group.

[-] apotheotic@beehaw.org 45 points 1 day ago

I mean this person seems to be not doing it maliciously. As they say, if it wasn't them, it would be someone else. Pushing archive to improve their security is great for everyone. As long as this person doesn't do anything actually malicious, they're in the clear as far as I'm concerned.

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago

The hackers are mostly not okay. Fucking bootlickers.

[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 13 points 1 day ago

Ok, but no need to be bitchy towards the good librarians.

[-] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 44 points 1 day ago

This strikes me as state-funded or state adjacent hacking. Kind of like how the destruction of Twitter eliminated a source of on-the-ground, 24/7 information for the working class on all of the events our governments would prefer we not see so that their propaganda can be produced more lazily. Destroying the Internet Archive acts as another hindrance to the working class when it comes to staying informed and enriched.

[-] B0rax@feddit.org 26 points 1 day ago

This message here in particular is not looking state funded if you ask me. Gaining access to zendesk tickets is a vulnerability which was published a few weeks/months ago and is not difficult at all.