Last week, the Internet Archive and its beloved Wayback Machine was taken down by a hacktivist group who unleashed a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on the site. Along with that, data for over 31 million user accounts were lost in the cyberattack.
While the site owners have been working around the clock this past week to restore everything, it’s going to be a while longer before everything is back up and running as it was.
For now, though, there’s some good news: the Wayback Machine is up and running in a read-only capacity, meaning you can browse whatever it has archived so far but it won’t be archiving anything new for the time being. (The Wayback Machine is a renowned tool that archives copies of web pages so you can see those pages “as they were” in the past.)
If you have an account on the Internet Archive, you should plan on changing your password as soon as the site is fully operational again.
Further reading: What to do if you’re caught in a data breach
