Well, shit.

If you happened to head to https://archive.org in the last 30 minutes or so, you may have seen this alert:

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!

(which has now been replaced with this message)

Internet Archive services are temporarily offline. Please check our Twitter feed for the latest information. We apologize for the inconvenience.

I’ll try to keep things updated here if/when IA responds.

Update 1: Well now https://archive.org isn’t loading at all.. guessing they’ve pulled the plug or the increased attention has broken things.

Update 2: Seems it was caused by a possible supply-chain “attack” — polyfill.archive.org (archive.is):

https://polyfill.archive.org/v3/polyfill.min.js?features=fetch%2CIntersectionObserver%2CResizeObserver%2CglobalThis%2CElement.prototype.getAttributeNames%2CString.prototype.startsWith%2CArray.prototype.flat%2CURL%2CURLSearchParams

is returning:

alert('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!')