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The Internet Archive is still down but will return in ‘days, not weeks’


The Wayback Machine will be back soon.

By Emma Roth, a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. The Internet Archive will come back within “days” following a data breach that brought down the organization’s vast digital library and the Wayback Machine, according to an update from founder Brewster Kahle. After a pop-up from a purported hacker claimed the archive had suffered a “catastrophic security breach” earlier this week, Have I Been Pwned founder Troy Hunt confirmed he’d received a file with the stolen data, so anyone registered on his site can get an alert if it includes their information.

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