Any updates will come from the Internet Archive side of things, so I’d suggest following their own socials to find out. I’m sure once we know it’s working someone will post here too, but it’s entirely outside of our control.
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same but for digital releases
also as a side note, some of us have been collecting releases with importable cover art with the _add cover art tag, so they can easily be found once CAA is back up
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From the Internet Archive’s perspective their priority is getting their primary systems (eg website crawling and archiving) back online. Once that’s done and stable I’m sure CAA will follow.
In the meantime just impatiently select a random release once a day to see if the cover art loads, like me 
Their latest:
Latest update from Mark Graham, director of the Wayback Machine (Oct 16, 1:56pm PT):
"Wanted to share an update from Team Wayback Machine
The archives are safe & the Wayback Machine is up in read-only mode.
We hope to turn more web crawling on within a day to make sure our web collections remain whole.
Next up: Save Page Now.
Thank you for the support!"
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Gee, they need a full third-party security audit asap.
Oooo… I see arts… CAA may be back… 
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Great timing. Just when editing cover art was disabled:
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I’m seeing art too. Haven’t been this excited for something in a long time!
Woohoo, CAA is (hopefully for good) back up!
(Although my co-workers are wondering why I’m celebrating in the middle of the office)
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You don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone. Weird how exciting it was seeing art load on releases again 
The latest update I can see from the Internet Archive is linked below and indicates that archive.org is back up in read-only mode. That’s the service that the Cover Art Archive is hosted on, so we won’t be able to upload cover art yet until it’s back in full read-write mode - but at least being able to view art and tag releases in Picard using CAA images again is welcome news.
They also highlight that services are limited availability while they’re still running maintenance on them, so it’s likely the CAA will be interrupted occasionally until they give final word it’s fully restored.
Internet Archive Services Update: 2024-10-21
Posted on [October 21, 2024](Internet Archive Services Update: 2024-10-21 | Internet Archive Blogs> archive-services-update-2024-10-21/) by Chris Freeland
In recovering from recent cyberattacks on October 8, the Internet Archive has resumed the Wayback Machine (starting October 13) and Archive-It (October 17), and as of today (October 21), has begun offering provisional availability of archive.org in a read-only manner. Features like uploading, borrowing, reviewing items, interlibrary loan, and other services are not yet available.
Please note that these services will have limited availability as we continue maintenance.
Hackers disclosed archive.org email and encrypted passwords to a transparency website, and also sent emails to patrons by exploiting a 3rd party helpdesk system.
The safety and integrity of the Internet Archive’s data and patrons remain our top priorities. As the security incident is analyzed and contained by our team, we are relaunching services as defenses are strengthened. These efforts are focused on reinforcing firewall systems and further protecting the data stores.
We appreciate your patience and support as we work through these challenges. For ongoing updates, please follow our blog and official social media channels on X/Twitter, Bluesky, and Mastodon.
We stand with all libraries that have faced similar attacks—British Library, Seattle Public Library, Toronto Public Library, and Calgary Public Library—and with the communities we serve. Thank you for standing with the Internet Archive as we continue to fight back on behalf of all affected readers.
(source link - not generating preview properly so I quoted above):
https://blog.archive.org/2024/10/21/internet-archive-services-update-2024-10-21/
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Appears the system is back up loading album art and other information. I just tested about 30 different single mp3 files and all took without incident. Keep calm and carry on. Thanks to the MBP team along with the Internet Archive folks that assisted in bringing this back. Never knew how much something is so important to your hobby until it is no longer available.
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Still read-only, cannot add art, but if getting to the art is now stable that’s progress. They are doing the correct thing (even if I have itchy fingers). Where I use to work we took a breach back in 2004, I won’t even tell you how long we were out of business and what we had to do.
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Montezuma’s Revenge
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montezuma%27s_Revenge_(video_game)
Reading here it appears that things are potentially due back online over the coming week 
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Through the Musicbrainz site it is still impossible to upload cover art, and it is not clear to me whether the necessary facilities are back up on the archive.org side. Does anybody know more?
Be patient, I am confident they are doing the correct process, recoveries can take time. IA provides a lot of services and each of those must be looked at carefully. Speaking from experience returning from a breach is a long time consuming process with a lot of long hours and a lot of meetings. The last thing you want is to accidentally leave a vulnerability in place that can be exploited, bad actors are watching, both the ones that did this and new ones.
To be fair on the IA team, I just saw the “Save Page” option of their Wayback Machine enabled again. It’s not working perfectly yet (apparently it’s overloaded), but it looks like they are slowly re-opening their services for submitting/collecting new data.
I am wondering if some form of “rate limiting” from “applications” like MB is needed to help IA out as they restore services, in particular loading images to the cover-art archive.
Yeah, I am ready to go crazy with adding cover art…
I added about 300 releases in the last 26 days.
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Add those three together and it is probably worth MB waiting another week before opening the floodgates 
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yes, they actually tried to come back online with all services enabled about a day after the breach (as I was able to change my password) but was then immediately DDoS’d within 24 hours.
People need to remember this is a non-profit organisation not some multi-billion dollar conglomerate who have to please their shareholders, it’ll be down for as long as it needs to be down.
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