DDoS detectives deduce Mirai used to do the deed, using home entertainment boxes in Korea, China, and Brazil

The Internet Archive has come back online, in slightly degraded mode, after repelling an October 9 DDoS attack and then succumbing to a raid on users' data.

For several days after the attack, the Archive loaded into the basic page depicted below.

At the time of writing (0400 Wednesday UTC, 2100 Tuesday PT), The Register has seen the site sometimes load that page, but sometimes load another that's closer to the Archive's usual busy home page – but omits many items.

It's unclear why the site is switching between the two (and yes, we cleared caches and used multiple browsers).

On October 13 the org's digital librarian, Brewster Kahle, advised that the Archive's services were "coming back up when they can, safely. e.g. Email working."

A day later, on the afternoon of October 14, Pacific Time, Kahle ...