From PC Mag: The Internet Archive and its Wayback Machine have been down for days following a major hack. But the nonprofit says no archived data was lost, even though information on 31 million users was stolen.
“The data is safe,” Internet Archive Founder Brewster Kahle tweeted on Friday. Users can expect the site to return in “days, not weeks,” he added.
Kahle decided to take the site offline to improve the archive’s security after the hack as well as multiple DDoS attacks intended to knock the archive offline.
The breach naturally raised concerns about the hacker potentially destroying all the data stored by the archive, including the over 840 billion web pages. But on Friday, Kahle said the data had “not been corrupted.”
“Services are currently stopped to upgrade internal systems,” he added in a separate tweet. “We are working to restore services as quickly and safely as possible.”
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