The Internet Archive, a popular digital library known for its Wayback Machine, was hacked and suffered a breach that reportedly exposed the data of 31 million user accounts.

Internet Archive suffered a cyberattack leaking the usernames & passwords of 31 million users and diminishing the site's operating capacity.

The Internet Archive, an online repository of web pages, was offline Thursday after its founder confirmed a major cyberattack that exposed the data of millions of users and left the site defaced.It operates a web archive called the Wayback Machine,

Internet Archive's "The Wayback Machine" has suffered a data breach after a threat actor compromised the website and stole a user authentication database containing 31 million unique records.

The Internet Archive faces yet another DDoS attack, which has caused the data breach of 31 million users of the platform. Read more.

The Internet Archive, a nonprofit digital library that has served as a main repository of internet history, is back online with limited functionality after weeks of being harassed by hackers.

Because the Internet Archive is back in read-only format, users can’t upload web pages to be added to the site’s billions of captured links. Rather, users can access content t

The founder asked people who use the Wayback Machine for now to "please be gentle." Launching the Wayback Machine now takes you to the usual page. From here, you can search for archived versions of a page by typing a URL or keywords.

The Internet Archive was brought down on October 9th following a DDoS attack from a small hacker group. Additional attacks hit the Archive one day later and were expected to continue throughout the week.

News of the DDoS attack (which stands for “Distributed Denial of Service”) broke on October 9, when users attempting to access the Wayback Machine were met with a JavaScript alert that read: “Have you ever felt like the Internet Archive runs on sticks and is constantly on the verge of suffering a catastrophic security breach?