The Internet Archive taken down by DDoS attacks

[Joystiq]

The Internet Archive has been hit with a series of DDoS attacks this week that have taken the service offline.

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noticed a popup on the site today when the online database went down. The popup has since disappeared, but the site is not currently available.

The Wayback Machine looks like it has been compromised.

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— Dark Web Informer (@DarkWebInformer)

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Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle has been publishing updates on the attacks on X, with the latest

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simply that the team is attempting to bring the site back online. A DDoS organization known as Blackmeta

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responsibility for the attacks with a confusing message that the platform "belongs to the USA." The Internet Archive is a non-profit that provides free access to a vast library of software and media, as well as hosting the Wayback Machine web archive.

Yesterday's DDOS attack on

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repeated today. We are working to bring

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back online.

— Brewster Kahle (@brewster_kahle)

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This

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it has been targeted by DDoS attacks, but this week's attacks are the latest in a string of bad news for the Internet Archive. The platform has been fighting a legal battle over ebook copyrights and recently

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in the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

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