Internet Archive slowly coming back after DDoS

[Kyng]

https://www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks...os-barrage

The Internet Archive, a nonprofit digital library website, is beginning to come back online after a data breach and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, prompting a week of its systems going offline.

Founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle, the archive offers users free access to a historical Web collection, known as the Wayback Machine. This including access to more than 150 billion webpages, nearly 250,000 movies, 500,000 audio items, and more.

This free access to these seemingly unlimited resources all came to a halt on Oct. 9, when hackers stole and leaked the account information of a reported 31 million users.

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Glad to see this is on its way back - although, it's still completely down for me, as it has been for over a week now!

Are you able to use it again?

[Moonshroom]

Barely.

DDOSing the Internet Archive is like burning down a freaking library, man.

[JHG]

I haven’t which means I got no way to read the Dinosaur Anthologies or Inside a Samurai Castle.

[Bryn]

Yes, it's working just fine for me... and hey look, an old archive of the TCH is found safe and well!

[Kyng]

Yes, it's working just fine for me... and hey look, an old archive of the TCH is found safe and well!

Indeed - an awful lot has changed since then .

But yes, I'm glad the Wayback Machine is back, at least. I hope the rest of the site follows suit soon!

[Cory]

I'm glad to see it's back online. I have used this site since I started using Jcink to convert ZetaBoards themes to Jcink. It is a useful tool.

It's nice to reminisce about old sites you were a part of too that are no longer around.

[Bryn]

And I'll be glad that whoever did this gets arrested/charged/whatever. There was absolutely no reason to do such a thing

[JHG]

Back online? The Open Library isn’t yet!

[~ True Legend ~]

https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/20/2427...k-tickets/
 

Users on the Internet Archive subreddit are reporting getting the replies, as well. Here is the message I received:

It’s dispiriting to see that even after being made aware of the breach 2 weeks ago, IA has still not done the due diligence of rotating many of the API keys that were exposed in their gitlab secrets.
As demonstrated by this message, this includes a Zendesk token with perms to access 800K+ support tickets sent to [email protected] since 2018.
Whether you were trying to ask a general question, or requesting the removal of your site from the Wayback Machine—your data is now in the hands of some random guy. If not me, it’d be someone else.
Here’s hoping that they’ll get their sh*t together now.

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Back online? The Open Library isn’t yet!

The Internet Archive has been slowly coming back online after the attacks and has resumed some services, including its website archive called the Wayback Machine. But its vast inventory of data, which is comprised of countless books, software, images, videos, audio, and even the digital archives of the island nation of Aruba, remains inaccessible.

The Archive team is currently “working around the clock across time zones” to bring more of the site’s services back, Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle wrote in a blog post on October 17th. The site expects to resume more of its offerings in the “coming days,” but in read-only mode at first, “as full restoration will take more time,” according to the post.

[JHG]

Well, it’s back but no logins.