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These uploads cannot be viewed by logged-out users and cannot be downloaded by anyone except the admins, making any of these pieces of content inaccessible.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Internet Archive Forums: Log In Required, after logging in. |url=https://archive.org/post/1092552/log-in-required-after-logging-in |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.ph/fFVg6 |archive-date=2025-08-16 |access-date=2025-08-16 |website=[[Internet Archive]]}}</ref> | These uploads cannot be viewed by logged-out users and cannot be downloaded by anyone except the admins, making any of these pieces of content inaccessible.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Internet Archive Forums: Log In Required, after logging in. |url=https://archive.org/post/1092552/log-in-required-after-logging-in |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.ph/fFVg6 |archive-date=2025-08-16 |access-date=2025-08-16 |website=[[Internet Archive]]}}</ref> | ||
===Archived | ===Archived website removal=== | ||
The | The Archive accepts DMCA takedown requests of websites whose owners no longer want their sites archived<ref>{{Cite news |last=Bixenspan |first=David |date=2018-11-28 |title=When the Internet Archive Forgets |url=https://gizmodo.com/when-the-internet-archive-forgets-1830462131 |url-status=live |access-date=2025-08-31 |work=[[Gizmodo]]}}</ref> causing certain sites to be inaccessible. | ||
===Data | The Internet Archive ''used'' to hide material covered by robots.txt restrictions but that was changed on April 17, 2017.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Graham |first=Mark |date=2017-04-17 |title=Robots.txt meant for search engines don’t work well for web archives |url=https://blog.archive.org/2017/04/17/robots-txt-meant-for-search-engines-dont-work-well-for-web-archives/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170417131508/http://blog.archive.org/2017/04/17/robots-txt-meant-for-search-engines-dont-work-well-for-web-archives/ |archive-date=2017-04-17 |access-date=2025-08-31 |website=Internet Archive}}</ref> | ||
On May 19, 2017, The Archive's Development Manager | ===Data breaches (2012-2024)=== | ||
On May 19, 2017, The Archive's Development Manager made a blog post detailing that anyone who had created their account before 2012 had to change their password as the site had been breached with user's public information and lightly encrypted passwords being leaked.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Barrett |first=Katie |date=2017-05-19 |title=Re: User account breach {{!}} Internet Archive Blogs |url=https://blog.archive.org/2017/05/19/re-user-account-breach/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250520030556/https://blog.archive.org/2017/05/19/re-user-account-breach/ |archive-date=2025-05-20 |access-date=2025-08-16 |website=[[Internet Archive]]}}</ref> | |||
On October 9, 2024, users on the Internet Archive got pop-ups that the website had been hacked with notifications appearing from the perpetrators at around 9PM CST,<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-10-09 |title=Dark Web Informer on X |url=https://x.com/DarkWebInformer/status/1844123206413943274 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/ADnLW |archive-date=2024-10-12 |access-date=2025-08-16 |website=[[Twitter]]}}</ref> and an hour later Troy Hunt of HaveIBeenPwned confirmed the breach.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hunt |first=Troy |date=2024-10-09 |title=Troy Hunt on X: "Hi folks, yes, I'm aware of this. I've been in communication with the Internet Archive over the last few days re the data breach, didn't know the site was defaced until people started flagging it with me just now. More soon." / X |url=https://x.com/troyhunt/status/1844136762727448644 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/R8bRB |archive-date=2024-08-10 |access-date=2025-08-16 |website=[[Twitter]]}}</ref> | On October 9, 2024, users on the Internet Archive got pop-ups that the website had been hacked with notifications appearing from the perpetrators at around 9PM CST,<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-10-09 |title=Dark Web Informer on X |url=https://x.com/DarkWebInformer/status/1844123206413943274 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/ADnLW |archive-date=2024-10-12 |access-date=2025-08-16 |website=[[Twitter]]}}</ref> and an hour later Troy Hunt of HaveIBeenPwned confirmed the breach.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hunt |first=Troy |date=2024-10-09 |title=Troy Hunt on X: "Hi folks, yes, I'm aware of this. I've been in communication with the Internet Archive over the last few days re the data breach, didn't know the site was defaced until people started flagging it with me just now. More soon." / X |url=https://x.com/troyhunt/status/1844136762727448644 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/R8bRB |archive-date=2024-08-10 |access-date=2025-08-16 |website=[[Twitter]]}}</ref> | ||