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Internet Archive breached again through stolen access tokens

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492 points vladyslavfox | 1 comments | 20 Oct 24 15:00 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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TheFreim ◴[20 Oct 24 15:24 UTC] No.41895901[source]▶
> "It's dispiriting to see that even after being made aware of the breach weeks ago, IA has still not done the due diligence of rotating many of the API keys that were exposed in their gitlab secrets," reads an email from the threat actor.

This is quite embarrassing. One of the first things you do when breached at this level is to rotate your keys. I seriously hope that they make some systemic changes, it seems that there were a variety of different bad security practices.

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ghostly_s ◴[20 Oct 24 17:15 UTC] No.41896897[source]▶
IA is in bad need of a leadership change. The content of the archive is immensely valuable (largely thanks to volunteers) but the decisions and priorities of the org have been far off base for years.
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1. superkuh ◴[20 Oct 24 18:16 UTC] No.41897333[source]▶
It's the least worst option. Remember when that happened with Mozilla? Now they're an ad company. Take the bad (some bad mis-steps re:multiple lending during the pandemic, not rotating keys immediately after a hack) with the good (staying true to the human centric mission and not the money flows).