The Internet Archive, also known as The Wayback Machine, suffered an outage around midnight east coast time on August 25th. Disappointed fans around the world who were unable to access the site ...

A targeted hack on the Internet Archive has threatened billions of archived web pages and a comprehensive digital history of the globe. The website remained offline on Friday after its founder ...

Story updated Oct. 11 with additional expert comment regarding the DDoS attack on the Wayback Machine and the security resources that have helped limit the damage. Hackers have compromised the ...

A federal judge has ruled against the Internet Archive in a lawsuit brought by four book publishers. A federal judge has ruled against the Internet Archive in a lawsuit brought by four book publishers ...

Publishers have every right to challenge businesses that exploit their work—but the Wayback Machine has become collateral ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Digital forensics, AI, deepfakes, and what becomes proof in court. At the end of this article, you will find explanations of the ...

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 ...

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 came back online for users Monday evening after almost two full weeks of being unavailable following an attack on Oct. 8 that exposed the fact that hackers had stolen sensitive ...

Last month, the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine archived its trillionth webpage, and the nonprofit invited its more than 1,200 library partners and 800,000 daily users to join a celebration of the ...

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 ...

If you step into the headquarters of the Internet Archive on a Friday after lunch, when it offers public tours, chances are you’ll be greeted by its founder and merriest cheerleader, Brewster Kahle.