Internet Archive hit with extensive data breach amid mounting legal challenges

The news: Internet Archive reported a massive data breach of more than 31 million user records and disclosed a series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks attempted through the week.

  • The data stolen from the nonprofit includes authentication information such as email addresses, password change timestamps, and screen names.
  • Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine database went down Tuesday and was still offline as of Thursday evening.