The Internet Archive is under attack

[Free]

The Internet Archive is under attack, with a breach revealing info for 31 million accounts

A DDoS attack isn’t the only problem.

www.theverge.com

When visiting The Internet Archive today, The Verge was greeted by a pop-up message claiming the site has been hacked. After closing the message, the site loaded normally, albeit slowly.

Jason Scott, an archivist and software curator of The Internet Archive, said the site was experiencing a DDoS attack, posting on Mastodon that “According to their twitter, they’re doing it just to do it. Just because they can. No statement, no idea, no demands.”

Lovely...

When I go to https://archive.org/ I get variations on it being down, or a near blank page with a link to their Twitter account for updates.

 

[Essence Lumin]

The Internet Archive is under attack, with a breach revealing info for 31 million accounts

A DDoS attack isn’t the only problem.

www.theverge.com

Lovely...

When I go to Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine I get variations on it being down, or a near blank page with a link to their Twitter account for updates.

It seems to be working fine now. I asked for sluniverse.com results from 2005 and it quickly delivered the page.

 

[Isabeau]

Internet Archive (@archive.org)

UPDATE (October 10, 3:36am PT) on the DDOS attack on Internet Archive. We will share more as we know it.

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