Internet Archive announced a data leak of 31 million users

The Internet Archive has announced a 31 million user data leak. The database with personal information of participants registered on the service was stolen.

The database contains unique email addresses, encrypted passwords using BCRYPT, as well as other internal data of users. The latest record in the database dates from September 28, 2024. Probably on this day the base was hacked.

What is Internet archive

Internet Archive is a non -profit library that has a free online archive Wayback Machine. He archives and makes publicly available a large part of the open Internet.

The service was launched in 1996, but became available to the public only in 2001. In the first 20 years of existence, Wayback Machine cataloged and saved a collection of more than 286 billion web pages.

Responsibility for leakage of data, as well as for DDOS attacks on the platform, was taken by the BlackMeta group. She stated that the attacks would continue.

The service advised users to change the password and set a two -factor authentication.

How Russians data flow

For six months of 2024, data on 140 million unique mobile numbers of Russians flowed on the Internet, as well as 46 million unique e-mail addresses, Izvestia wrote with reference to Darknet Darknet monitoring. Most leaks were in the e-commerce sector, 16% of the data flowed from retail, and 10% with information and entertainment resources.

The financial sector remains the leader in terms of flowing data. For six months from financial companies, more than 80 million records were leaked to open access. One of the largest leaks in the first half of 2024 was the Robo.finance incident, due to which 2 million lines of data from the MFI MFIs and about 6 million customers of the MFI “Money” got into open access.

One of the large leaks of retail was the "drain" of data from the shoe and clothing store Rendez-Vous. Then 7.6 million unique numbers and 4.5 million e-mail of Russians got into the network.

In August 2024, it became known that the FSB border service database on people who crossed the Russian border with other countries from 2014 to 2023 flowed into the network.

The data stolen from the Russians are gathering in bots in Telegram and on specialized sites of "Darking" in Darknet. With the help of such services, you can find out almost all the information about a person: from passport data, condeshus and TIN, to family and friendly connections, purchases, fines, salaries and taxes, addresses, traveling, fellow travelers and so on.

Both fraudsters and law enforcement agencies use the stolen data, including to start affairs for "undesirable" comments on social networks, North. Realiy wrote .