DDoS attack on Internet Archive causes intermittent web service outages
The Internet Archive and the Wayback Machine were hit by a DDoS attack. The attack caused intermittent outages of the web services.
Key facts
- Affected organization
- Internet Archive
- Incident type
- DDoS
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Intermittent web service outages
- Cause / method
- DDoS attack
- Location
- United States
Timeline
- The DDoS attack on the Internet Archive and the Wayback Machine and the resulting intermittent service outages were reported.
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