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 ...

A targeted hack on the Internet Archive has threatened billions of archived web pages and a comprehensive digital history of the globe. The website remained offline on Friday after its founder ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Lars Daniel covers digital evidence and forensics in life and law. At the end of this article, you will find explanations of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

An illicit JavaScript pop-up on the Internet Archive proclaimed on Wednesday afternoon that the site had suffered a major data breach. Hours later, the organization confirmed the incident. “Have you ...

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 ...

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 ...

For decades, the Internet Archive has preserved our digital history. Lately, journalists and ordinary citizens have been turning to it more than ever, as the Trump administration undertakes an ...

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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 ...

Part 2 of the TED Radio Hour episode For All Eternity. The internet is forever ... or is it? The average webpage is deleted or changed in just 100 days. To preserve all human knowledge — digital and ...