by Tom Warren from The Verge - All Posts on (#6REVC)
Image: the Internet Archive 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.The Internet Archive is now back online in a provisional, read-only manner," according to founder Brewster Kahle. Safe to resume but might need further maintenance, in which case it will be suspended again."While you can access the Wayback Machine to search 916 billion web pages that have been archived over time, you can't currently capture an existing web page into the archive. Kahle and team have gradually been restoring A... Continue reading...