• Wikipedia officially blacklists all links to Archive Today over bizarre DDOS attack and manipulated archives - website operator caught tweaking their own archive Vendetta against blogger results in a poor ending for everyone involved. • Get Tom’s Hardware’s best news and in-depth reviews, straight to your inbox. • You are now subscribed Your newsletter sign-up was successful A few days ago, we covered an eyebrow-raising bit of news about the operator(s) of Archive Today leveraging their website to allegedly execute a denial-of-service attack against Jani Patokallio, a security blogger. • At the time, Wikipedia considered dropping all links to Archive Today (AT), a decision argued for and against in open discussion. • That decision has quickly been made final thanks to AT altering its own archived pages to fuel its feud. • Specifically, AT’s maintainers reportedly tweaked snapshots of a third-party blog post that Patokallio referred to in his February 2026 article about the DDoS attack.
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- Wikipedia has officially blacklisted all links to Archive Today after discovering that the site’s operators had altered archived snapshots to implicate security blogger Jani Patokallio in a February 2026 post. The changes, which renamed a user “Nora” to Patokallio, were detected by editors and reverted, but the incident prompted a final decision to remove Archive Today references. Wikipedia will replace affected links with the original source, another archive, or non‑archival media, though about 15 % of links are deemed irreplaceable. The move follows a 2023 post by Patokallio that exposed Archive Today’s operators, who allegedly added code to the archive to launch a DDoS attack against his site.
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