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,

The Internet Archive, a non-profit digital library best known for its Wayback Machine, has disclosed a major data breach affecting over 31 million users.

Hackers have seemingly done the impossible and hacked the past. In this case, that past is the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. Here’s what we know so far.

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

After suffering from a grueling cyberattack, The Internet Archive and its services are online but as read-only.

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?

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 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 whi

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.