Internet Archive brings back ‘Save Page Now’ feature, available through the Wayback Machine

Nonprofit digital library Internet Archive has brought back the feature Save Page Now, which is again available through the Wayback Machine and has stressed that it will begin adding web pages archived since last October 9, when there was a blackout in its service.

The Save Page Now or ‘Save Page Now’ function allows users of this digital library capture or store a page manuallyas well as adding Internet Archive websites, which are still recovering from a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack executed in early October.

This resulted in the crash of the service and the leak of a user authentication database that contained 31 million unique records or user accounts, as confirmed by the creator of the Have I Been Pwned? website, Troy Hunt, who received this file from cybercriminals.

Weeks after the incident, Internet Archive announced the recovery of its main services, such as Wayback Machine – which allows access to disappeared websites – or Archive-It, which were made available to users in reading mode.

The platform, which has continued to investigate the attack and strengthen its systems. The result of this work has been the recovery of the Save Page Now function, to access saved websites with their original links through the Wayback Machine.

Internet Archive has confirmed through its X account that web pages that have been archived since last October 9 -when the service went down as a result of the DDoS attack- will begin to appear on the Wayback Machine.