Internet Archive targeted in massive CYBERATTACK, taking most of its services offline

11/07/2024 / By Kevin Hughes

The digital library Internet Archive has been hit with a massive cyberattack that has brought it offline.

The Internet Archive, which has been operational since 1996, has existed as a free repository for websites, software applications, music, audiovisual and print materials for nearly three decades. The Archive, which is free and open to anybody with a connection to the internet, contains digitized copies of nearly 900 billion webpages in its digital web archive the Wayback Machine.

Just recently, many services provided by the Internet Archive went down, and attempts to access services left users with the following message: “Wayback Machine, Archive-It and blog.archive.org resumed. Other Internet Archive services are temporarily offline.”

Writing for the libertarian think tank the Brownstone Institute for Social and Economic Research, founder Jeffrey Tucker and fellow Debbie Lerman warned that this could be another sign of the growing trend of censorship worldwide, comparing the Internet Archive to independent media hosting services like Rumble. (Related: Disturbing warnings of dangers to come as globalists prepare to take down the internet, allowing them to rewrite history, while ‘criminal invaders’ are set loose across America.)

Internet Archive hit with a huge DDOS

The trouble on Internet Archive started on Oct. 8, 2024, when the service was suddenly hit with a huge denial of service attack (DDOS) that not only pulled down the service but introduced a level of failure that almost took it out completely.

Internet Archive came back as a read-only service. People can only read content that was posted before the attack and the service has yet to continue any public display of reproducing of any sites on the internet.

Simply put, the sole source on the entire World Wide Web that copies content in real time has been disabled.

Chris Freeland, director of Library Services at Internet Archive, said in a recent blog post that the key archive page is up, including its Wayback Machine, Open Library, a digital archive for books and Archive-It, a paid subscription service for archiving digital content.

On the archive page, the majority of the key services appear to be available, along with publicly available texts, TV news search and borrowing, audio files, moving images, institutional uploads, institutional web archiving and access via the API.

“More services and features coming online soon. Services may be interrupted for ongoing maintenance. Thank you for your patience and ongoing support,” Freeland said in the blog post.

What people are missing and what has changed is anyone’s guess. And people have no idea when all services will come back completely. It is also possible that they will not come back, that the only real history to which people can take resource will be pre-Oct. 8, 2024.

The Internet Archive was established as a largely free and democratic service, and the effort needed to fully restore its services has been described as a “herculean” task.

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Watch the video below from “New World Next Week” discussing the attack against the Internet Archive.

This video is from the What Is Happening channel on Brighteon.com.