Wayback Machine back up after Internet Archive hack

• Founder Brewster Kahle posted on X: "The @internetarchive's Wayback Machine resumed in a provisional, read-only manner....Please be gentle."

Catch up quick: The attack on the archive became public on Oct. 9, when visitors to the site were met with a taunting popup 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? It just happened. See 31 million of you on HIBP!"

• HIBP is the Have I Been Pwned site, which lets users look up whether their personal data has been compromised by data breaches.
• That site's operator told Bleeping Computer it had received a 6.4GB database file containing "authentication information for registered members, including their email addresses, screen names, password change timestamps, Bcrypt-hashed passwords, and other internal data."

The intrigue: With the data breach made public, the Internet Archive also found itself faced with one or more DDOS attacks that kept users from accessing the site.

• A motive for the attacks on the archive, a nonprofit organization beloved by researchers, has not been identified.