While the #Internet #Archive is still recovering from a massive #breach, let‘s examine why the #Wayback Machine, the home of the #website #museum, was caught in the crossfire of alleged political hacktivism.

Internet Archive, the non-profit digital library, was thoroughly #hacked earlier this week. Its website was defaced, and tens of millions of its users' details were exposed. Hours after the initial #attack, the nonprofit was continuously plowed with one #DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack after another.

After briefly coming back to life on Thursday, the website was shut down again. Even in the wee hours of October 11th, it was still down, with its founder, Brewster Kahle, updating users that all services had been stopped to allow internal systems to be upgraded. At the time of writing, it’s unclear how long the service’s downtime will continue.

But why did all of this happen? Internet Archive, a nonprofit digital library, was launched in 1996, a decade more optimistic than the one we’re living in now. Back when internet-dwellers still envisioned the online as a democratic venue for knowledge-sharing.

https://cybernews.com/editorial/internet-archive-hack-drama-explained/