this Internet Archivea non-profit digital library that provides free access to digital content and popular books. Backtrackeris back after suffering a major blow Data leakage last week. However, the organization’s founder said the platform is now back online in a “temporary, read-only manner.”
“It can be resumed safely, but further maintenance may be required, in which case it will be suspended again,” founder Brewster Goode According to The Verge.
How the Internet Archive was hacked
Last week, the Internet Archive suffered a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack that leaked the personal information of 31 million users.
The vulnerability was first discovered when visitors to archive.org received a JavaScript alert: “Have you ever felt like the Internet Archive was shaky and constantly on the verge of suffering a catastrophic security breach? It just happened. View 31 million times you took HIBP!
A pro-Palestinian hacker group called SN_BLACKMETA claimed responsibility for the attack.
According to reports, users can access the Wayback Machine to search 916 billion web pages archived over time, but users are currently unable to extract existing web pages into files. The following message is now displayed on the website:
Service availability
Wayback Machine (temporary, read-only) service.
Other web file services are temporarily offline.
Have I Been Pwned, a website that tracks data breaches, confirmed the hack. In response to the attack, the Internet Archive shut down its services to investigate and strengthen its security. Over the past few days, the organization has been gradually restoring services, including the National Library’s email accounts and crawlers.
A few weeks after this incident Google Started including links to the Wayback Machine, the Internet Archive’s digital archive of websites, in its search results. This means users can access older versions of the website and archived pages.
