The Internet Archive is under attack, with a popup claiming a ‘catastrophic’ breach

An image showing a laptop with “Error” notifications on the screen Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge

When visiting The Internet Archive today, The Verge was greeted by a pop-up message claiming the site has been hacked. After closing the message, the site loaded normally, albeit slowly.

Here’s what it says:

“Have you ever felt like the Internet Archive runs on sticks and is constantly on the verge of suffering a catastrophic security breach? It just happened. See 31 million of you on HIBP!”

HIBP refers to Have I Been Pwned?, a website where people can look up whether or not their information has been published in data leaked from cyber attacks. It’s unclear what is happening wi...

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