It is possible that additional maintenance is required for the platform, which is now only accessible in a read-only condition.
As a result of distributed denial of service assaults that pulled the entire platform offline on October 9, the Wayback Machine of the Internet Archive has been brought back up in a read-only condition. The service has been “resumed in a provisional, read-only manner,” according to a statement that was made by the founder Brewster Kahle on Monday (via The Verge). This means that users are unable to store new pages.
In a statement, security researcher Troy Hunt stated that the attacks that occurred the previous week coincided with the Internet Archive’s intention to reveal a previous breach that resulted in the theft of more than 31 million records. Hunt, who is in charge of the Have I Been Pwned? service, was of the opinion that the timing of the two attacks was most likely “entirely coincidental,” and he cited the involvement of “multiple parties.”
Using a message that stated that the Internet Archive “belongs to the USA,” the hacker group known as Blackmeta asserted that they were responsible for the attacks. With its headquarters in San Francisco, the nonprofit organization was established in 1996, during the early days of the World Wide Web.
Kahle has stated that it is “safe to resume” using the Wayback Machine, which means that you can resume your trip to your favorite Geocities post-grunge homage sites. It is important to note that the founder cautions that the service might require additional maintenance, so you should not be surprised if it goes down once more.