Internet Archive website back after being hacked and down for a week
The Internet Archive is back online after a cyberattack took down its digital library and Wayback Machine last week. Of course, it comes with a number of restrictions: read-only. Remember, a data leak and DDoS attack took the site offline on October 9.
The Internet Archive was announced a few hours ago to be back online “on a temporary, read-only basis,” according to founder Brewster Kahle. “It’s safe to resume, but it may require further maintenance, in which case it will be suspended again.”
This means, as the founder of this site announced on his X profile, that the Wayback Machine service that stores copies of the entire site is back online but has not yet fully regained its functionality.
- Over 900 billion archived sites
So the Wayback Machine is accessible to search the 916 billion web pages that have been archived over time, but it can’t currently capture a web page that’s in the archive. The founder and his team have been gradually restoring Archive.org services in recent days, including restoring team email accounts and their tracking devices for national libraries.
The Internet Archive or Wayback Archive is a huge non-profit library that records the history of the Internet to date; the library of the network of networks. It is a huge archive with a history of more than 866,000 million pages and its various developments. You can visit it now after it is back in operation at this link: Internet Archiv