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 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, the nonprofit organization that digitizes and archives materials like web pages, came under attack Wednesday. Several users –

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. It never dawned on me that I might be insufficiently grateful for the Internet Archive.

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.

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.

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.