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After its website was crippled for nearly a month by a cyberattack, the Internet Archive announced on Monday that it had restored one of its most valuable services—the Save Page Now feature that allows users to add copies of webpages to the organization’s digital library.
The digital library was taken offline by multiple cyberattacks last month and had been operating in read-only mode until Monday.
After its website was crippled for nearly a month by a cyberattack, the Internet Archive announced on Monday that it had restored one of its most valuable services—the Save Page Now feature that allows users to add copies of webpages to the organization’s digital library. Founded in 1996, the Internet Archive is a nonprofit based in San Francisco that provides access to historic web pages, digitized books, and a variety of other media that it has uploaded through its partnerships with hundreds of physical libraries and other partners. A hacker who claimed responsibility for the data breach told Bleeping Computer that the Internet Archive had left a GitLab configuration file exposed on one of its development servers, which contained authentication tokens that allowed the attacker to download the organization’s source code.
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