The reason for such a fury against what is considered an essential non-profit institution would be that it has ties to the United States . The United States that is allowing the genocide of the Palestinians and that therefore must be hit everywhere.
However, if you go and look for the group's profile belgium phone number online, for example the one on Elon Musk's social network (and how ironic in this), you will notice how many have tried to make these hackers understand that in reality they did not hit any company that is part of the United States but a charity that only has a physical office in that country.
The stubbornness demonstrated, however, would make more than one person lean towards an explanation according to which the attack on the American enemy was only a fictitious maneuver and the real reason was another.
Having clarified that there is no clarity even on the real reasons why The Internet Archive and with it The Wayback Machine and the other services were hit, let us instead try to understand what the consequences were and what the consequences could still be on the service that replaced what could be had directly inside Google Search .
The most important consequence of the attack is that, clearly, there have been no updates to sites that may have changed in the meantime or to new sites that may have been published in the days that The Wayback Machine was offline.
The consultation is now active again although it is clear that there could be other changes and the service could in turn go offline to allow for further security updates. In addition to the problems that the interruption of the service itself has generated for many users, who for example rely on what is inside The Internet Archive for study, and in addition to the technical problems of those who may have needed to look at a previous version of a website using the service of The Wayback Machine, one must ask whether it is perhaps appropriate to have copies or alternative services to the great work that The Internet Archive does with The Wayback Machine.