The Internet Archive hackers still have access to its internal emailing tools

Early this morning, I received an email from “The Internet Archive Team,” replying to a connection I’d sent connected October 9th. Except its writer doesn’t look to person been the integer archivists’ enactment squad — it was seemingly written by the hackers who breached the site earlier this period and who evidently support immoderate level of entree to its systems.

I’m not alone. Users connected the Internet Archive subreddit are reporting getting the replies, arsenic well. Here is the connection I received:

The Verge near a voicemail astatine the Archive’s contact number asking for much information.

The Internet Archive has been slowly coming backmost online aft the attacks and has resumed immoderate services, including its website archive called the Wayback Machine. But its immense inventory of data, which is comprised of countless books, software, images, videos, audio, and adjacent the integer archives of the land federation of Aruba, remains inaccessible.

The Archive squad is presently “working astir the timepiece crossed clip zones” to bring much of the site’s services back, Internet Archive laminitis Brewster Kahle wrote successful a blog post connected October 17th. The tract expects to resume much of its offerings successful the “coming days,” but successful read-only mode astatine first, “as afloat restoration volition instrumentality much time,” according to the post.

As for wherefore the tract has been nether assault, that’s inactive unclear. Kahle said helium doesn’t know, either, successful a Washington Post story yesterday. “Why footwear the cat?” helium added.