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The Internet Archive has been hit with a series of DDoS attacks this week that have taken the service offline.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 DDoS attack came just as the Internet Archive was preparing to disclose a previous breach of its site that resulted in the theft of more than 31 million records.
"It's clearly not just one attack," he wrote.responsibility for the attacks with a confusing message that the platform"belongs to the USA." The Internet Archive is a non-profit headquartered in San Francisco that provides free access to a vast library of software and media, as well as hosting the Wayback Machine web archive.
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