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.

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’s Wayback Machine is back online following a devastating distributed denial of service attack which knocked out its services last week and coincided with the theft of emails and encrypted passwords of 31 million users.

The Internet Archive is back online, albeit in a read-only state, after DDoS attacks took the service offline on October 9. Its founder says the platform is “resumed in a provisional, read-only manner” without the ability to save pages.

Spread the loveAfter a brief hiatus, the internet’s most beloved time machine, the Wayback Machine, is back online! While the service is currently operating in read-only mode, you can still explore the vast archive of captured websites,

The Internet Archive was shuttered by a hack days ago, but the Wayback Machine is back online, at least for reading. "Please be gentle," writes Brewster Kahle. The @internetarchive's Wayback Machine resumed in a provisional,