Documents, via Internet Archive Wayback Machine snapshots, that WIV’s main pathogen/sample database (holding data on >22,000 bat/rodent virus specimens and sequences) went offline on 12 September 2019, and that all 16 WIV-managed pathogen databases were eventually taken down — months before the outbreak was identified. Notes that the WHO-China joint mission was told, on a Feb-2021 visit, that this followed “repeated hacking attempts,” and lays out a timeline and inconsistencies in that explanation based on the archived snapshots.
relevance_note: The primary documentary basis for the “WIV took its virus database offline in Sept 2019” claim recurring across Senate/State-Dept-adjacent lab-leak arguments; a DRASTIC-authored inference from archived web snapshots, not an official WIV disclosure.