There are few organizations dedicated to the gargantuan task of preserving the vast, ever-shifting record of human activity that is the internet. The largest such record belongs to a nonprofit based in an old church in San Francisco that operates on a smaller annual budget than the D.C. Public Library.
It is currently under siege.
Hackers struck the Internet Archive last week, leaking the information of millions of users and defacing it with a message taunting the nonprofit's website for running on a shoestring budget. To prevent further leaks, the Internet Archive's team took the site, including its popular Wayback Machine, offline. It is the first time in its almost 30-year history that it has suffered an outage of longer than a few hours, founder Brewster Kahle told The Washington Post. Most of the site remains offline a week later.
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