Hackers are destroying the Internet's history book right now

The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine was hit by hackers recently with DDoS attacks, a data breach, and vandalism on its website. Over 31 million accounts were compromised and the Wayback Machine has been temporarily taken offline.

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[emhean]

This is like vandalizing a graveyard. Absolutely nobody is going to find you cool or likable.

[cggdpwb]

attacking a free-access library is the lowest of the low.

[u_js]

The fact that not a single one of the big tech companies have come to help highlights how much this is needed. They are truly willing to kill open access to knowledge for a quarters profit.

[JustAnotherScienceBro]

Imagine knocking out the old man who's giving out free books by the street corner and thinking you're cool

[OliverFedderson]

when it comes back i’m donating to the internet archive. what a bunch of scumbags attacking free access to knowledge, the internet archive deserves it after this crap

[vitaminluke]

The Internet Archive needs an Internet Archive Archive.

[drasticgray]

This is the digital equivalent to vandalizing and threatening to burn down a library. It takes a special kind of scumbag.

[TryalArrow]

Internet Archive has digital copies of books from hundreds of years ago. A lot will probably not feel the loss, but a loss is still a loss

[fhujf]

It's quite disturbing how a bunch of assholes can on a whim destroy the modern equivalent of the Alexandria library.

[THE-X-Force]

The Internet Archive is one of those things you didn't realize you cared about .. until you suddenly can't access it anymore.

[luk]

"I'm not a teenager". What a very weird thing to say for an adult. Sounds like something that teenager would say.

[bluefox]

" Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it"
It's why writing and books helped us as humans become better than most animals. Otherwise each new generation just repeat learning the same thing over and over and over.

[Grayald]

The modern-day burning of the library of Alexandria.

[MUSTASCHO]

The wayback machine needs international backing and funding to make it more robust. It is the archive of the history of the internet for god's sake. It is of immense historical and cultural value.

[nexon]

doing this is like, bullying a disabled dude in high school. Not cool, not worth it and in no possible way a thing you should do in a group

[yoji]

Just the other day I was using the archive to explore dead fan sites that have been absolutely lost to time. Its crazy how much history might be lost because of this

[Kulkogo]

Those hackers think they’re cool when in reality they just made enemies with the entire internet

[dragonchaserkev]

Thought hackers went after big corrupt corporations... Not non profit entities. This is low and the hackers are losers, plain and simple.

[justaguy]

the code report threatening the hackers is cold 🥶

[cortfitzpatrick]

My guess is that someone with a lot of money has something on the archive that is incriminating.