Kevin Collier is a reporter covering cybersecurity, privacy and technology policy for NBC News.
The Internet Archive, a nonprofit digital library that has served as a main repository of internet history, is back online with limited functionality after weeks of being harassed by hackers. Brewster Kahle, the Archive’s founder, wrote on his social media channels Sunday night that services had resumed in a read-only mode and that new webpages can’t be saved yet. “Safe to resume but might need further maintenance, in which case it will be suspended again. Please be gentle,” Kahle wrote.
30 he received the breach of 31 million users’ usernames, email addresses and encrypted passwords. The Archive does not store significant user information. Starting on Tuesday, the Archive came under repeated DDoS attacks and was briefly replaced with a taunting message from the hackers. A spokesperson for the Archive declined to comment on who was responsible for the attacks, saying that “the team is focused on resolving things.
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