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.
The
Internet
Archive
is
now
back
online
in
a
“provisional,
read-only
manner,”
according
to
founder
Brewster
Kahle.
“Safe
to
resume
but
might
need
further
maintenance,
in
which
case
it
will
be
suspended
again.”
While
you
can
access
the
Wayback
Machine
to
search
916
billion
web
pages
that
have
been
archived
over
time,
you
can’t
currently
capture
an
existing
web
page
into
the
archive.
Kahle
and
team
have
gradually
been
restoring
Archive.org
services
in
recent
days,
including
bringing
back
the
team’s
email
accounts
and
its
crawlers
for
National
Libraries.
Services
have
been
offline
so
that
Internet
Archive
staff
can
examine
and
strengthen
them
against
future
attacks.
A
pop-up
from
a
purported
hacker
claimed
the
archive
had
suffered
a
“catastrophic
security
breach”
last
week,
before
Have
I
Been
Pwned
confirmed
data
was
stolen.
The
theft
included
email
addresses,
screen
names,
hashed
passwords,
and
other
internal
data
for
31
million
unique
email
accounts.
The
Internet
Archive
outage
came
just
weeks
after
Google
started
adding
links
to
archived
websites
in
the
Wayback
Machine.
Google
removed
its
own
cached
pages
links
earlier
this
year,
so
having
the
Wayback
Machine
linked
in
Google
search
results
is
a
useful
way
to
access
older
versions
of
websites
or
archived
pages.
(Originally posted by Tom Warren)
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