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- September 2024 -
28 September - The database for the Internet Archive is saved by the hijacker.
30 September - Troy Hunt, the founder of 'Have I been Pwned?' gets sent the database. 1
- Oct 6, 2024 -
Exact time unknown - The Internet Archive is notified by Troy Hunt about the database breach. 1
- Oct 8, 2024 -
At 9:11 PM the Internet Archive chairman Brewster Kahle posts on their X (formerly Twitter) account about a DDoS
- Oct 9, 2024 -
At 6:07:08 PM the SN_BLACKMETA group post in their Telegram channel about "several highly successful attacks for five long hours [sic]" - then at 6:20 PM they post it in their X (formerly Twitter) account
At 6:22:20 PM BleepingComputer publishes an article about the hijack.
(The alert() occured at approximately 8:50 PM and lasted about 20 minutes)
At 8:54:26 PM the first Hacker News post about the breach is posted
At 8:56:15 PM the first Reddit post about the breach in r/internetarchive is posted
At 8:56 PM senior editor of the Verge, Tom Warren replies to the previous Brewster Kahle post about a DDoS with "was it a little more than a DDoS?"
At 9:26 PM the Verge article about the breach is posted
At 9:51 PM Brewster Kahle posts on their X (formerly Twitter) account about a 'DDoS' - followed by a Quote Post (formerly Retweet) on the @internetarchive account at 9:53 PM.
At 10:41 PM the "Have I Been Pwned?" X (formerly Twitter) account posts about the Internet Archive getting added to their database, dated back into September 2024.
At 11:13 PM the Wikipedia page for Internet Archive is edited to add mention of this hijack.
- Oct 10, 2024
(at around 0:00 the Archive and the Wayback Machine are back up.)