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A federal appeals court sided with publishers in the copyright fight over whether the Internet Archive can lend out digitized books. A federal appeals court sided with publishers in the copyright ...

The San Francisco-based Internet Archive now has federal depository status, joining a network of over 1,100 libraries that archive government documents and make them accessible to the public — even as ...

The Internet Archive was breached again, this time on their Zendesk email support platform after repeated warnings that threat actors stole exposed GitLab authentication tokens. Since last night, ...

Update on 10/20/24 added to the bottom of this article. Internet Archive's "The Wayback Machine" has suffered a data breach after a threat actor compromised the website and stole a user authentication ...

The Internet Archive has finally recovered from a devastating series of cyberattacks last month with all its main sites and services back up and running. Only a few ancillary features are still down, ...

Hachette v. Internet Archive was brought by book publishers objecting to the archive’s digital lending library. Notably, the appeals court’s ruling rejects the Internet Archive’s argument that its ...

The Wayback Machine is back online after a data breach and DDoS attacks. The Wayback Machine is back online after a data breach and DDoS attacks. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been ...

The Internet Archive Breach: Over 31 Million User Accounts Exposed Your email has been sent Attackers got hold of a 6.4 GB file containing the email addresses and ...

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In case you didn’t hear — on October 22, 2025, the Internet Archive, who host the Wayback Machine at archive.org, celebrated a milestone: one trillion web pages archived, for posterity. Founded in ...