A hack this month on the world’s largest archive of the internet — whose mission is to provide “universal access to all knowledge” — has compromised millions of users’ information and forced a ...

For decades, the Internet Archive has preserved our digital history. Lately, journalists and ordinary citizens have been turning to it more than ever, as the Trump administration undertakes an ...

Update on 10/20/24 added to the bottom of this article. Internet Archive's "The Wayback Machine" has suffered a data breach after a threat actor compromised the website and stole a user authentication ...

The Internet Archive has brought its Wayback Machine back online “in a provisional, read-only manner” as it continues to recover from attacks that took the site down last week, founder Brewster Kahle ...

Update, 11:58 p.m. ET: The Internet Archive’s Brewster Kahle wrote a short blog post about what happened. The website was getting tens of thousands of requests per second from someone using AWS, ...

A group linked to a pro-Palestinian hacktivist movement has launched a catastrophic cyberattack revealing the details of 31 million people, compromising their email addresses and screen names. An ...

The Internet Archive was breached again, this time on their Zendesk email support platform after repeated warnings that threat actors stole exposed GitLab authentication tokens. Since last night, ...

In case you didn’t hear — on October 22, 2025, the Internet Archive, who host the Wayback Machine at archive.org, celebrated a milestone: one trillion web pages archived, for posterity. Founded in ...

The Internet Archive, a nonprofit that hosts a digital library, was recently hit with a double dose of cyberattacks from hackers, with one exposing the data of tens of millions of the site's users.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Brewster Khale, the founder of Internet Archive, about the attack by hackers that put the archive offline for days — and what may have happened if it had succeeded.