The Internet Archive, an online repository of web pages, was offline Thursday after its founder confirmed a major cyberattack that exposed the data of millions of users and left the site defaced.

Following a data breach and DDoS attack, the Internet Archive aims to return in "days, not weeks," with data intact.

A DDoS attacker that knocked the popular archive site offline has stolen millions of usernames, email addresses, and encrypted passwords.

The Internet Archive recently suffered a major cyberattack, compromising the data of 31 million users, including email addresses and passwords. The breach began on October 9, following a malicious pop-up that informed visitors of the security violation.

The Internet Archive and its Wayback Machine have been down for days following a major hack. But the nonprofit says no archived data was lost, even though information on 31 million users was stolen. “The data is safe,

T he Internet Archive will come back within “days” following a cyberattack that brought down the organization’s vast digital library and the Wayback Machine, according to an