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By Jeremy Ray Jewell
The Internet Archive’s struggles highlight the challenges faced by nonprofit organizations operating in a digital world dominated by commercial and geopolitical interests.

The Internet Archive, a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving digital history, is currently facing a series of severe disruptions. Over the past few weeks, it has been the target of multiple hacking incidents, legal battles, and aggressive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. These issues have led to intermittent downtime and limited functionality — and that puts the future of digital preservation at risk.
Founded in 1996 by digital librarian Brewster Kahle, the Internet Archive aims to provide “universal access to all knowledge.” Its “Wayback Machine” has been archiving snapshots of web pages (including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and images) for nearly three decades. Today, it hosts over 900 billion web pages, amounting to almost 100 petabytes of data. Users can revisit the early days of the internet, from the humble beginnings of today’s tech giants to the quirky personal websites of Geocities. Reflecting the web’s previously diverse past, this is a crucial reminder in our age of internet monopolies that things can be different. The Internet Archive also provides access to a vast collection of videos, audio, and books, many pre-internet. Add a variety of software to that, and it is clear to see why many view it as an invaluable resource for historians, researchers, and the general public. However, recent incidents have threatened the security and functionality of this truly essential service.
The first major sign of trouble surfaced on September 30, 2024, when the data breach website “Have I Been Pwned” (HIBP) reported that the Internet Archive had been compromised. The hack was confirmed on October 5 and the Archive notified on October 6. By October 8, the public was informed that 31 million email addresses, usernames, and password hashes had been exposed. Security researcher Troy Hunt, founder of HIBP, clarified the extent of the compromised data: authentication tokens, consisting of screen names, password update timestamps, and Bcrypt-hashed password digests.
On October 9, attackers defaced the Internet Archive’s website by placing a JavaScript pop-up alert warning visitors about the breach. The alert read, “Have you ever felt like the Internet Archive runs on sticks and is constantly on the verge of suffering a catastrophic security breach? It just happened. See 31 million of you on HIBP!” This message suggested that the attackers had gotten access to the platform’s codebase, which raised concerns about the security and integrity of the Archive’s data. There is no confirmation that hackers actually tampered with the historical web data, but the potential threat to digital preservation is significant.
The situation escalated with a series of DDoS attacks. On October 8, Brewster Kahle confirmed that the invaders had overwhelmed the Archive’s servers, eventually forcing the platform offline. Russian hacker group SN_BlackMeta claimed responsibility for these assaults, citing political motives related to pro-Palestinian causes and expressing anti-US and anti-Israeli sentiments. The group announced their intention to continue disrupting the Archive, claiming, “They are under attack because the archive belongs to the USA, and as we all know, this horrendous and hypocritical government supports the genocide that is being carried out by the terrorist state of Israel.” The charges have no merit: the Internet Archive is a nonprofit organization with no political affiliations. In a recent post on X, SN_BlackMeta similarly declared, “contrary to popular belief, we do not work and we are not associated to [sic] any government agency”.
Attacking the world’s single most important source of historical information that houses the internet’s history is obviously an absurd way to make a point about Israel-Palestine. For one thing, evidence of Israeli war crimes against Palestinians can be found on the Internet Archive. And, as we all know, conscription-age, politically passionate, tech-savvy Russian rebels are deeply concerned about Palestine at the moment. We need only recall Nazi book burnings and Stalinist purges of opponents from the historical record to see that we have been here before — acts of erasing history before rewriting it. When we consider the threats presented by AI, particularly regarding how it can alter the historical record to make it more palatable to its users, the current danger presented by such attacks on the most important records collection of the last 30 years is evident. If you wanted to harm a free people, you would first attack its freedom of information. Russia has already proven itself apt at undercutting credibility in our understanding of current affairs.
As of October 14, the Archive has managed to restore partial functionality, allowing users to access the Wayback Machine in a “provisional, read-only manner.” Other services remain offline. Kahle stated that additional maintenance might require further suspensions, adding that the organization is “being cautious and prioritizing keeping data safe at the expense of service availability.”
The recent security challenges are not the only concern. The Internet Archive also faces legal challenges stemming from its “Open Library” project, co-founded by Kahle and the late Aaron Swartz (known for his advocacy of open access to information and his mysterious “suicide” while facing federal charges for downloading academic journal articles from JSTOR through MIT’s network). This project digitizes physical books in order to facilitate the lending of digital copies, adhering to a one-to-one ownership model. However, several major publishers sued the Archive, claiming that this practice constituted copyright infringement. The lawsuit ended in favor of the publishers. Not only does the Archive now face potential damages exceeding $600 million; the organization was forced to delete 500,000 digital books, highlighting an ongoing tension between digital preservation and copyright law.
This legal defeat has added to the strain on the Archive’s finances, threatening the sustainability of one of its core projects. A nonprofit, the Internet Archive operates on limited resources, and the convergence of legal and security crises has placed considerable pressure on its future viability. The recent breaches and attacks underscore the fragility of digital preservation. If attackers can erase or tamper with archived content, the loss to historical records is incalculable. The only other entity with a comparable digital archive is Google, which has stopped maintaining its own cached search results. It now redirects users to the Wayback Machine. At this point, losing the Internet Archive would mean erasing a crucial part of the web’s history, with far-reaching consequences for researchers, historians, and the public.
The Internet Archive’s struggles highlight the challenges faced by nonprofit organizations operating in a digital world dominated by commercial and geopolitical interests. Despite its invaluable service, the Archive has always had to operate on limited financial resources. Now, with legal and security crises converging, its future is more uncertain than ever. What began as a visionary project to create a “digital library” has now morphed into a battleground for contentious issues touching on privacy, intellectual property, and digital preservation. The outcome of these battles will have significant implications for how we remember the past in an increasingly “virtual” world.
The challenge is clear: preserving digital history is more critical than ever. If the Internet Archive cannot weather this storm, it will signal the beginning of an Orwellian world, where the internet’s past can be manipulated, revised, or erased, leaving future generations with a distorted or incomplete understanding of history. There are at least two parties who share responsibility for tooling up chaos here. And chances are good that these threats to the preservation of our historical record are on track to grow in the near future. On the one hand, there are the “unaffiliated” Russian hacktivists who are interested in turning the world’s attention away from atrocities in Ukraine and brewing coups in Moldova. On the other hand, large US-based publishers like Wiley have already demonstrated their willingness to transgress norms of academic rigor in order to facilitate collaboration with the informational dictates of totalitarian governments.
Our reboot-saturated market for nostalgia demands that history be appealing, a yen exploited by various ideologies who are hellbent on airbrushing the past for the sake of maintaining or taking power. That urge to remake the past for the sake of pleasing the present makes us increasingly vulnerable to those interested in trashing the historical record. For the sake of a reality-based future, an accurate past must be militantly defended.
Jeremy Ray Jewell writes on class and cultural transmission. He has an MA in history of ideas from Birkbeck College, University of London, and a BA in philosophy from the University of Massachusetts Boston. His website is www.jeremyrayjewell.com.
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When it comes to freedom of religion and the rights enshrined in the 45 words of the First Amendment, the devil is in the details in Iowa.
Gov. Kim Reynolds’ administration recently revoked permission for the Satanic Temple of Iowa to place a display in the Capitol and host a holiday celebration around it. The government said the event would harm minors.
A year ago, the governor took the opposite stance on the Satanic Temple’s holiday display. Although she said in 2023 that it was “absolutely objectionable,” she explained then why the display was allowed: “In a free society, the best response to objectionable speech is more speech, and I encourage all those of faith to join me in praying over the Capitol and recognizing the nativity scene that will be on display.”
The reaction from Reynolds’ faithful supporters was quick back then. A state representative called the 2023 display unconstitutional. Some critics said tolerance has its limits. One conservative commentator said, “Promoting evil isn’t freedom of speech.”
That was then. Now is now. The Reynolds administration moved from private prayer against last year’s display to state action this year.
Yet, the First Amendment did not change in the past 12 months. But Reynolds’ views of freedom of speech and freedom of religion certainly sound different. They sound like a politician now guided by the views of her faithful, not by the meaning of the First Amendment.
Adam Steen, a Reynolds appointee who heads the Department of Administrative Services, explained that he banned the Satanic Temple from erecting its display this year and holding its holiday celebration in the Capitol because “the totality of the event,” in his judgment, would “include elements that are harmful to minors.”
Reynolds elaborated in a statement: “The Iowa State Capitol complex is a place that is open to the public, where children and families routinely visit. Because of this, the state’s event policy takes into consideration conduct that would be harmful to minors. This satanic event, which specifically targets children, is harmful to minors and so it was denied.”
The organizers’ description of their “Satanic Holiday Joy” celebration does not come near the governor’s view of the event. In a post on Facebook, organizers wrote, “Our goal was to promote tolerance and acceptance of diverse religious beliefs, with a theme of finding light in the darkness and welcoming the darkest nights of the year with joy and camaraderie.”
The statement added: “As a peaceful law-abiding organization, we will embody the spirit of wisdom and compassion in the face of injustice.”
Kim Reynolds and Adam Steen lack the authority to decide what constitutes a religion or which faith groups are worthy of access to the Iowa Capitol and which are not. The First Amendment requires even-handed treatment of everyone.
As organizers explained, the only difference between the traditional Christmas celebrations that occur inside the Capitol and the Satanic Temple’s event is that one is about celebrating Jesus, while one is not.
Iowa is not alone in facing this controversy. A holiday display by the Minnesota Satanists was vandalized this month at the State Capitol in St. Paul. A spokesman for Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said the governor does not agree with the display. But the official told the Minnesota Star Tribune, “The First Amendment means that he does not police speech in the State Capitol. That’s true whether it’s a religious display, a political protest, or a Minnesotan advocating for a policy.”
Steen, the Iowa official who nixed the Satanic Temple event this year, apparently based his decision on organizers’ plans for costumed characters around the display to carry sticks as symbolic weapons. And Steen believed either the sticks or the images could harm children.
There is certain amount of irony in the position of state officials. State government is disregarding the First Amendment and prohibiting a religious display that does not square with the religious views of the governor and Steen. In contrast, officials often point to the Second Amendment’s right to bear arms as the reason for not doing more to combat the danger of school shootings.
There have been far more students killed or wounded in gun violence in Iowa public schools than in celebrations hosted by the Satanic Temple at a government building.
What this boils down to is the group’s name. Were the Satanic Temple called the People’s Faith Community, it is unlikely public outcry would follow.
The seven tenets of the Satanic Temple include this one that might help guide Gov. Reynolds and Director Steen: “People are fallible. If one makes a mistake, one should do one’s best to rectify it and resolve any harm that might have been caused.”
Admission of error does not appear forthcoming, so the courts may need to resolve this disagreement over the meaning of the First Amendment. And resolving any harm likely will include the payment of thousands of dollars to the temple’s lawyers if they succeed in educating state officials on one of America’s foundational freedoms.

Randy Evans is executive director of the Iowa Freedom of Information Council and can be reached at DMRevans2810@gmail.com.
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October 17, 2024
The Internet Archive, a nonprofit digital library website, is beginning to come back online after a data breach and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, prompting a week of its systems going offline.
Founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle, the archive offers users free access to a historical Web collection, known as the Wayback Machine. This including access to more than 150 billion webpages, nearly 250,000 movies, 500,000 audio items, and more.
This free access to these seemingly unlimited resources all came to a halt on Oct. 9, when hackers stole and leaked the account information of a reported 31 million users. 
The users were met with a pop-up that read, "Have you ever felt like the Internet Archive runs on sticks and is constantly on the verge of suffering a catastrophic security breach? It just happened. See 31 million of you on HIBP!"
HIBP is the "Have I Been Pwned" site that allows users to look up whether their personal information has been compromised in a data breach.
The Internet Archive site went offline in an effort to try to prevent such attacks from continuing to happen. Founder Brewster Kahle reported on social platform X that this process would take days, if not weeks.
"The @internetarchive's Wayback Machine resumed in a provisional, read-only manner. …. Please be gentle."
And in an update yesterday, he reported that Wayback Machine is running strong, though the team is still working to bring Internet Archive items and other services online safely.
Netscout, which has conducted analyses on the breach, reported that its researchers observed 24 DDoS attacks against the Autonomous System Number (ASN) 7941, the ASN used by the Internet Archive project. The first attack lasted more than three hours, and during the attack, three IP addresses used by Internet Archive received DDoS attack traffic.
"These kinds of attacks energize adversaries, and they often attempt to replicate the feat," the Netscout researchers reported. 
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To protect that data, Kurtic advises "proactive policy management," as well as detection of movement, encryption, and hashing.
"Monitoring access and continuously scanning to update classifications at hundreds-of-petabytes scale is hard but essential," he adds.

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Most of Internet Archive’s services have resumed after a series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks took the world’s largest digital library’s website offline several times over the past few days.
In a blog post published on October 18, the non-profit confirmed that many services are now up and running, including its Wayback Machine, Archive-It, scanning and national library crawls, email, blog, helpdesk and social media communications.
“Our team is working around the clock across time zones to bring other services back online. In coming days more services will resume, some starting in read-only mode as full restoration will take more time,” the organization added.
The digital library also suffered a JavaScript-based website defacement showing a message in which a mysterious threat actor claimed to have breached 31 million unique records from the Internet Archive’s IT systems, including email addresses, screen names and bcrypt password hashes.
The breach was confirmed on October 9 by data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned, and later by Internet Archive itself.
However, Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle said on X October 11 that “data is safe.”
In its latest blog post, the non-profit further confirmed that “the stored data of the Internet Archive is safe.”
Neither Kahle nor the non-profit communicated the measures they took to ensure the previously exposed data was now safe.
“We’re taking a cautious, deliberate approach to rebuild and strengthen our defenses. Our priority is ensuring the Internet Archive comes online stronger and more secure,” said the non-profit in its public statement.
“As a library community, we are seeing other cyber-attacks—for instance the British Library, Seattle Public Library, Toronto Public Library, and now Calgary Public Library. We hope these attacks are not indicative of a trend,” it added.
On X, Kahle also prompted his community to donate to Internet Archive.

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The Lumma Stealer Trojan, observed in the provided sample, employs advanced techniques to exfiltrate sensitive data from popular browsers and applications, which targets a wide range of information, including browser credentials, cryptocurrency wallet details, and user profiles from platforms like Steam and Discord, posing a significant threat to user privacy and security.
The collection includes three files: a PowerShell script (“Trigger.ps1”), another PowerShell script (“BMB1tcTf.txt”) significantly larger in size, and an executable (“hhh.exe”), while SHA1 hashes are provided for each file for identification and integrity verification.
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It creates a new process using more.com (an MS DOS command to display text content) and injects its payload using the Process Doppelgänging technique and then drops two files: one named more.com and another with a random lowercase letter combination filename.
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In an exclusive interview, Volker Kull of BELL Computer-Netzwerke GmbH shares how Extreme Networks is revolutionizing industries with cutting-edge solutions. With robust security, AI-driven insights, and seamless network management tools, Extreme Networks simplifies complex environments across healthcare, education, and government sectors. Kull highlights their meticulous attention to performance and user experience, making them a trusted…
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Andre Vuch of Klinikum Freudenstadt – IT highlights how Extreme Networks transformed their network management, turning complexity into simplicity. With centralized management, secure end-device integration, and stable system redundancy, the hospital now operates seamlessly, even under demanding conditions. Early adoption of Network Access Control (NAC) proved a game-changer, streamlining device relocation and integration. Extreme Networks’…
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