Home Tech SecurityInternet Archive's Wayback Machine is back up after data breach - with a catchThe site is accessible but with a few limitations. Here's why.lance-31.pngWritten by Lance Whitney, ContributorOct. 14, 2024 at 8:39 a.m. PTranktrend1ChatGPT’s Canvas feature supercharges productivity282% of organizations will implement agentic AI in next three years, survey finds3Cybersecurity professionals use AI to improve attack detection4Google launches global anti-scam initiativeview trend reportgettyimages-1207477849Floriana/Getty ImagesThe Internet Archive is slowly starting to recover from a recent DDoS attack that clobbered the main site and its subsidiary sites. Early Monday, Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle posted on X that the Wayback Machine is back online -- but with a couple of constraints.First, the site is operating in a provisional, read-only manner. That means you can access past versions of the more than 900 billion web pages in the archive. But you can't save new pages into that archive. Further, Kahle said that the site may need further maintenance, in which case it will have to go offline again. The founder asked people who use the Wayback Machine for now to "please be gentle."Also: Why you don't need to pay for antivirus software anymoreLaunching the Wayback Machine now takes you to the usual page. From here, you can search for archived versions of a page by typing a URL or keywords. With the results that pop up, you're able to pick a specific date in the past and view a snapshot of that page as it was back then.Even with the site back up, however, you may encounter some hiccups when attempting to view an archived page. I tried to load snapshots of several different pages and ran into timeout errors or just slow performance. This could be because the site isn't back up to snuff or is getting hit by a lot of people eager to use it again.The Wayback Machine is up again but in read-only modeScreenshot by Lance Whitney/ZDNETThe main Internet Archive and the Open Library sites both remain offline. The non-profit Internet Archive provides free access to a wide variety of digital artifacts of the past, including software, music, movies, TV shows, and books. The Open Library offers a huge catalog of books you can read and borrow. Also inaccessible is the Archive-It site, a subscription-based service that lets organizations build large collections of videos, social media posts, and other digital content.