Internet Archive suffered a cyberattack leaking the usernames & passwords of 31 million users and diminishing the site's operating capacity.

After suffering from a grueling cyberattack, The Internet Archive and its services are online but as read-only.

The Internet Archive is gradually restoring its services following a cyberattack that led to a temporary shutdown of its website last week.

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 came back online for users Monday evening after almost two full weeks of being unavailable following an attack on Oct. 8 that exposed the fact that hackers had stolen sensitive data from millions of users.

It's been a rocky few weeks for digital library The Internet Archive, following a number of distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks which left the service offline and allowed hackers to access the data of up to 31 million users.

The hacker responds through Internet Archive. Earlier this month, Internet Archive suffered multiple cyberattacks that ended up taking the entire platform, including The Wayback M

The digital library's website was defaced earlier this month with a message boasting its theft of Internet Archive users' sensitive records. The nonprofit said it's working to bolster security.

Its dispiriting to see that even after being made aware of the breach weeks ago, Internet Archive has still not done the due diligence of rotating many of the API keys that were exposed in their gitlab secrets,