After a DDoS attack took the entire platform offline on October 9th, the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine is back online in a read-only state. Founder Brewster Kahle posted on Monday (via The Verge ) that the service is “tentatively resuming.” There is no ability to save new pages.
Security researcher Troy Hunt said last week’s attack coincided with the Internet Archive’s plans to disclose a previous breach that led to the theft of more than 31 million records. Who is running Hunt, Have I Been Pwned? The service says the timing of the two attacks may have been “completely coincidental,” citing the involvement of “multiple parties” I thought it was high.
The hacker group Black Meta claimed responsibility for the attack, posting that the Internet Archive “belongs to the United States.” The nonprofit organization was founded in 1996 at the dawn of the web and is headquartered in San Francisco.
Karl says the Wayback Machine will allow people to “reopen safely” and resume their nostalgic journeys to their favorite Geocities tribute sites post-Grange. However, the founders warn that the service may require further maintenance, so don’t be shocked if it goes down again.
