Note:

Final update and confirmations:

The compromise has been confirmed via BleepinComputer and TroyHunt. 31,000,000 users impacted. There is no confirmed information on how the site was compromised. No Threat Actor(s) have been attributed to the compromise. More information is available on their respective social media platforms. More information will probably become available in the following hours or days.

Unrelated to the defacement and compromise, Sn_darkmeta claims to have been DDoSing Internet Archive. They state they're DDoSing the website because the United States government supports Israel and The Internet Archive belongs (?) to the United States.

We woke up to hate mail.

Some people believe we're responsible for DDoS and/or compromise of The Internet Archive. We did not DDoS and/or compromise The Internet Archive

Regardless, thanks for calling us mentally handicapped and saying we should commit suicide.

We're not entirely sure what is happening right now, but we suspect this person thinks we are responsible for the attacks against The Internet Archive.

It also has 94,000 likes and 1.8M views

> go online
> see internet archive defaced
> comment on the ddos / compromise
> give more information in follow up post
> non-nerds find post
> blame us

Thank you to everyone for the kind words and for defending us.

Truthfully, we aren't upset by these remarks. The post was made in our typical fashion and was directed toward our target audience. Whenever something we post escapes the information security ecosystem, information tends to bend and warp. It isn't surprising non-technical people who are unfamiliar with our work would misconstrue our commentary.

Some people who made the hateful remarks have apologized, others continued to criticize us saying our post was intentionally (or unintentionally) misleading. We personally did not believe this is something which could mislead people as we were directly quoting the wording in the compromise. However, it is evident we were painfully wrong.

We are sure things will calm down soon. The internet moves very fast and people outside the information security ecosystem will drift back into their circles of interest.

There is also a joke to be made somewhere regarding the hateful comments directed toward us on October 10th, World Mental Health Day, probably. We'll let someone more creative than us make the memes.

Anyway, back to work.

Have a nice day

Thank you, it's appreciated.

(no idea what this means, or why they blocked us after the message)

Unfortunately, as we grow in size we continue to see less tech-savy individuals who do not understand the malware nomenclature.

Moving forward we will make translations.

Translation:

Sad we getting big but dumb mfers come here mad as hell and now we gotta use littler words

Apologies — we failed to use a comma and we fear our translation may be misleading to some.

Translation:

my bad lol i forgot the , in the sentence, i dont want mfers thinkin we sad that we blowin up lol, fr we blessed

Not a big deal, the disk is okay and we still got ((2,147,483,648 * 3) - 17,216) good sectors left.

There is literally no reason why we should possess 30,335,219 malwares (growing as this is being written).

This 'collecting' thing is getting out-of-hand.

Seriously? What the hell are we going to do with it? We don't analyze it (we do sync it with some vendors), we only reverse maybe 0.00000001% of the samples.

What the hell are we doing? Why hasn't someone said something? We literally just have terabytes of malware hangin' around

Good morning,

- We've got a bunch of papers in queue, no idea when we'll push them to prod
- Estimated daily malware ingestion is 450,000 samples
- Winners for the swag giveaway will be selected throughout the weekend. We wanted to let people continue posting critters

Thanks,

333,100 followers and we're getting BIG money from it on social media. Don't even try to talk to us unless you've got stacks like us.

Our social media stats from the past 28 days

tl;dr 8m - 16m impressions == $109

We've made a ground breaking discovery.

When regular internet dweebs learned the Internet Archive got defaced they were under the impression that someone deleted over 100PB's of data within the time span it takes to click refresh on their web browser.

The panic and terror makes much more sense now.

We too would be terrified if someone discovered a way to zero-fill 100PB of data (without detonating an incendiary device) across a data warehouse in the blink of an eye, because this is no regular data-wiper payload, this is unironically spooky wizard galaxy brain time magic (only logical explanation).

Pic attached is an image from the Internet Archive. Imagine zero-filling all these computer thingies in .03 seconds.

Good morning, evening, or night.

We still haven't selected winners to the swag giveaway. Relax — you can stop sending us DMs. We'll do it later today, or tomorrow, whatever.

Okay, going back to bed now. Talk to you later.

Love you,

Massive Pokemon leak today.

- Partial Black/White v2 dev builds & source patch files
- Pokemon Bank source code
- Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver source code
- Famicom tech demo from 2004
- Black/White Git
- Platinum full SVN

Nintendo executives right now (they're going to sue everyone into nothingness)