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The Internet Archive is back as a read-only service after cyberattacks

The Wayback Machine is back online.

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. 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.

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