The digital library was taken offline by multiple cyberattacks last month and had been operating in read-only mode until Monday.
After its website was crippled for nearly a month by a cyberattack, the Internet Archive announced on Monday that it had restored one of its most valuable services—the Save Page Now feature that allows users to add copies of webpages to the organization’s digital library., the Internet Archive said web pages that users had attempted to save since October 9 are beginning to be archived now, although it did not provide an estimate for when the process would be completed.
A hacking group calling itself SN_BLACKMETA took credit for part of the October 8 attack, which included a distributed denial of service operation that rendered the Internet Archive’s website unusable. SN_BLACKMETA had previously claimed credit for a DDoS attack against the archive in May.
While it receives some federal funding from the National Science Foundation and a Federal Communications Commission program that provides resources to schools and libraries, much of the Internet Archive’s operating budget comes from philanthropic donors.
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