Wikipedia blacklists website that hijacked users’ computers to run hacking attack

English-language edition of Wikipedia has reportedly banned Archive.today website after the archive site was found to direct a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack against a blog. Wikipedia editors reportedly discovered that the archive site altered snapshots of webpages to insert the name of the blogger who was targeted by the DDoS. The Archive Today is said to have been running a DDoS (denial of service) campaign against the personal blog of engineer Jani Patokallio for over a month. Archive.today, also known as archive.is, is an archiving service similar to sites like the Internet Archive. Archive.today uses advanced scraping methods, and is generally considered more reliable than the Internet Archive. The website is widely cited online, including on Wikipedia.