Internet Archive Back Online After Cyber Attack A few days after becoming a victim of a cyber attack, Internet Archive and ‘Wayback Machine’, the largest digital library of the Internet, has come into operation. After the DDoS (DDoS) attack on October 9, it has been operated in a limited state.
A deed attack is an activity that disrupts services by flooding bot accounts on any platform and increasing traffic. After the attack, the Internet Archive site was not only down, but the user authentication database containing 310 million unique records was also stolen. According to Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahl, the site is safe to use. But the service may be stopped for some time as the repairs are still required.
Internet’s largest digital library down after cyber attack
At present, users can search more than 916 billion web pages in the Internet Archive’s main service ‘Wayback Machine’. However, in the current situation, the service of archiving new web pages has been affected due to cyber attacks.
The hacker claimed to have breached the security of the Internet Archive. This was later confirmed by the site ‘Have I Been Pwned’. Its founder, Troy Hunt, said he had received the data files leaked as a result of the attack. It is said that there are 310 million unique mail addresses, screen names, hashed passwords and other internal data.
This kind of massive cyber attack on the Internet Archive took place shortly after Google started removing links from cached pages and placing Wayback Machine links in Google search results. The Internet Archive also makes it possible to access old web pages. Which is a great feature of many web users.
But even now, when you open the site, you can see a message that other services have been temporarily stopped, except for reading what is in the Wayback Machine. According to international media, Kahl and his team have been working to restore the service for a few days.
