Its Wayback Machine, which lets users view old versions of websites, is back in a read-only manner. The Internet Archive is back online after new of a cyberattack took out its digital library and popular Wayback Machine on October 9.

The non-profit behind open access digital library was hit with both a data breach and a stream of DDoS attacks in one week

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 was back up yesterday, with some limits, after spending nearly a week offline in the wake of a data breach and denial of service attack. Why it matters: The archive and its Wayback Machine are a unique,

Taken offline after a breach, the huge collection of webpages, e-books, and other content is doing essential work abandoned by the for-profit web.

The Internet Archive, which hosts the Wayback Machine, is on a mission to preserve online content and books, yet it now faces constant attacks.

In recent weeks, the digital library dedicated to preserving the internet’s history has been under attack by the internet itself. The Internet Archive, a nonprofit library based in California, was founded in 1996 to archive and preserve the World Wide Web.

Earlier this week, news broke of a major hack on the Internet Archive, which leaked 31 million users' account info and temporarily took the service offline. The breach date later given seems to be September 28.

DDoS detectives deduce Mirai used to do the deed, using home entertainment boxes in Korea, China, and Brazil The Internet Archive has come back online, in slightly degraded mode, after repelling an October 9 DDoS attack and then succumbing to a raid on users' data.