In our lives since 1996 Internet Archivewas undoubtedly one of the most useful sites on the Internet. So much so that the platform allowed us to view previous versions of websites via screenshots using a tool called Wayback Machine. However, the organization was attacked by a cyber attack a few days ago.

In the attack that took place on Wednesday, October 9 About 6.4 GB, including about 31 million user records A large amount of data was stolen. Unfortunately it has not been used since. Today the expected development finally took place. The Internet Archive and Wayback Machine are officially back up and running.

Currently only open in reading mode format

Founder Brewster Kahle after massive cyber attack The site has officially reopened he declared. But just for now focused reading He stated that it was opened as According to the well-known name, it is safe to continue at this time, but new maintenance may be required at any time. This means that it may be temporarily closed again.

You can currently use the Wayback Machine and access 916 billion web pages. But her It is possible to add to the archive not. From here you can access the vehicle.

Unfortunately, a lot of sensitive data was stolen in the attack. We even saw hackers announcing the situation by adding a pop-up message about the hacking to the site, as if to joke about it. At the incident, below-email addresses, passwords, names 31 million unique records have been compromised, containing a lot of sensitive data, including There has been no further statement from the organization Internet Arcgive about the attack.

We saw the platform also come under attack in May. However, at that time there was no data breach or site closure.