If you haven’t been able to access the Internet Archive and its Wayback Machine for the past few days, it’s because the website has been attacked. In fact, there is a non-profit organization announced In a blog post, it is now “day three of the interim DDoS cyberattack prevention effort.” Memorial Day weekend organization placed Twitter/X said most of its services were down due to bad actors hitting the website with “tens of thousands of fake data requests per second”. On Tuesday morning, he warned It says it “continues to experience service interruptions” because attackers haven’t stopped targeting it.
It doesn’t affect website data though, and you can still view content from previous pages while you’re logged in. “Thankfully, the collections are safe, but we regret that a denial-of-service attack has taken us offline intermittently for the past three days,” said Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive. “With the support of others and the hard work of our staff, we are strengthening our defenses to provide more secure access to our library. What’s new is that this attack is persistent, effective, targeted, adaptive and, most importantly, senseless.”
The Internet Archive has yet to identify the source of the attacks, but has talked about how libraries and similar institutions are being targeted more often these days. One of the institutions he mentioned was the British Library, which was held for ransom by an online information hacking group last year. He also talked about how he was sued by US book publishing and the US recording industry. accuses of copyright infringement.
