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Internet Archive remains down after cyber attack; anti-US hacktivist group takes responsibility

Vishal Narayan


US-based nonprofit Internet Archive remained inaccessible Thursday after a DDoS attack, apparently launched by a pro-Palestine hacktivist group. 


The parent company of Wayback Machine, and a digital library that hosts hundreds of texts and multimedia content, struggled to keep users' data safe after coming under a cyber attack for three consecutive days.  


A worker at the online organisation said on X that DDOS attacks had "knocked http://archive.org and http://openlibrary.org offline" and that people at the firm were trying to keep data safe. 


An X user which goes by the handle SN_BLACKMETA took responsibility for the attack.


It accused the nonprofit of being a US agent and its users of turning a blind eye to the "genocide" in Gaza being committed by Israel, a US ally. 


"The Internet archive has and is suffering from a devastating attack. We have been launching several highly successful attacks for five long hours and, to this moment, all their systems are completely down," it said on X on Wednesday. 


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