The Internet Archive is under attack
The non-profit behind open access digital library was hit with both a data breach and a stream of DDoS attacks in one week
The Internet Archive is back as a read-only service after cyberattacks
The Internet Archive is back online in a read-only state after a cyberattack brought down the digital library and Wayback Machine last week. A data breach and DDoS attack kicked the site offline on October 9th, with a user authentication database containing 31 million unique records also stolen in recent weeks.
Internet Archive's Wayback Machine is back up after cyberattack
The Internet Archive was back up yesterday, with some limits, after spending nearly a week offline in the wake of a data breach and denial of service attack. Why it matters: The archive and its Wayback Machine are a unique,
The Internet Archive and its 916 billion saved web pages are back online
Founded in 1996, the nonprofit Internet Archive crawls the web to preserve pages that are publicly available and has captured 916 billion web pages so far. It has a staff of 150 people and also provides free access to many videos, audio files, and books (though it was recently forced to delete 500,000 books after losing a copyright case).
The Internet Archive is even more essential than I realized
Taken offline after a breach, the huge collection of webpages, e-books, and other content is doing essential work abandoned by the for-profit web.
Internet Archive is back up in a provisional "read-only" state since cyberattack
Earlier this week, news broke of a major hack on the Internet Archive, which leaked 31 million users' account info and temporarily took the service offline. The breach date later given seems to be September 28.
The Internet Archive hackers still have access to its internal emailing tools
The Internet Archive has been slowly coming back online after the attacks and has resumed some services, including its ...
Internet Archive breached again through stolen access tokens
The Internet Archive was breached again, this time on their Zendesk email support platform after repeated warnings that ...
The world’s largest internet archive is under siege — and fighting back
Hackers struck the Internet Archive, leaking millions of users’s data and causing founder Brewster Kahle to take a sprawling ...
The Internet Archive is back online after a cyberattack
Its Wayback Machine, which lets users view old versions of websites, is back in a read-only manner. The Internet Archive is ...
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Internet Archive Data Breach Compromises Credentials, Pro-Palestinian Hacktivist Group Claims Credit for Follow-Up DDoS Campaign
The Internet Archive has been under heavy attack in the past week, suffering both a major data breach and a series of potent ...
The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine is back up after hack
News of the DDoS attack (which stands for “Distributed Denial of Service”) broke on October 9, when users attempting to ...
Internet Archive's Wayback Machine is back up after data breach - with a catch
Launching the Wayback Machine now takes you to the usual page. From here, you can search for archived versions of a page by ...
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The organization that safeguards the internet’s history is under attack
In recent weeks, the digital library dedicated to preserving the internet’s history has been under attack by the internet ...