The Internet Archive has been hit with a series of DDoS attacks this week that have taken the service offline. The Verge noticed a popup on the site today when the online database went down.

Just after 9PM ET, Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle confirmed the breach and said the website had been defaced with the notification via a JavaScript library. Here’s what the pop-up said: ...

The digital library's website was defaced earlier this month with a message boasting its theft of Internet Archive users' sensitive records. The nonprofit said it's working to bolster security.

Please be gentle,” Kahle wrote. The California-based Archive has run the Wayback Machine, devoted to preserving the internet as a historical and cultural artifact, since 1996.

Internet Archive, a lawsuit brought against it by four book publishers, deciding that the website does not have the right to scan books and lend them out like a library.

Wayback is back The Internet Archive and its 916 billion saved web pages are back online Wayback Machine back in read-only mode after DDoS, may need further maintenance.

The average webpage is deleted or changed in just 100 days. To preserve all human knowledge — digital and analog — Brewster Kahle created the Internet Archive. About Brewster Kahle ...