Earlier this week, news broke of a major hack on the Internet Archive, which leaked 31 million users' account info and temporarily took the service offline. The breach date later given seems to be September 28. Yesterday evening, October 13, an operator of the Internet Archive confirmed that the service was back online, albeit in a more limited read-only form.
The greater security breach also served as a climax to sustained cyber-attacks that have been ongoing since May of this year. Many speculate that these are the work of greedy publishers or other shady interests since no one else would be incentivized to attack the Internet Archive and its Wayback Machine, which is essentially a digital library in function.
