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Internet Archive’s “The Wayback Machine” has suffered a data breach after a threat actor compromised the website and stole a user authentication database containing 31 million unique records, BleepingComputer reported. News of the breach began circulating Wednesday afternoon after visitors to archive.org began seeing a JavaScript alert created by the hacker, stating that the Internet Archive was breached. “Have you
Rolling out starting today, Google Search results will now directly link to The Internet Archive to add historical context for the links in your results, 9TO5 Google reported.
The Internet Archive has lost a major legal battle — in a decision that could have significant impact on the future of internet history. Today, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled against that long-running digital archive, upholding an earlier ruling in Hatchette v. Internet Archive that found that one of the Internet Archive’s book digitization projects
As a result of book publishers successfully suing the Internet Archive (IA) last year, the free online library that strives to keep growing online access to books recently shrank by about 500,000 titles, ArsTechnica reported. IA reported in a blog post this month that publishers abruptly forcing these takedowns triggered a “devastating loss” for readers who depend on IA to
As expected, the Internet Archive this week has submitted its appeal in Hatchette v. Internet Archive, the closely-watched copyright case involving the scanning and digital lending of library books, Publishers Weekly reported. In a brief notice filed with the court, IA lawyers are seeking review by the Second Circuit court of appeals in New York of the “August 11, 2023
Rolling Stone reported that Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Capitol, and other record labels filed a copyright lawsuit on Friday against the Internet Archive, founder Brewster Kahle, and others over the organization’s “Great 78 Project,” accusing them of behaving as an “illegal record store.” According to Rolling Stone, the suit lists 2,749 pre-1972 musical works available via Internet Archive