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Posted on 06/22/2011 9:06:01 AM PDT by Red Badger
Instapaper and Curbed Network are among the sites hit, though the cause of the raid is unknown
The F.B.I. seized Web servers in a raid on a data center early Tuesday, causing several Web sites, including those run by the New York publisher Curbed Network, to go offline.
The raid happened at 1:15 a.m. at a hosting facility in Reston, Va., used by DigitalOne, which is based in Switzerland, the company said. The F.B.I. did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the raid.
In an e-mail to one of its clients on Tuesday afternoon, a DigitalOne employee, Sergej Ostroumow, said: “This problem is caused by the F.B.I., not our company. In the night F.B.I. has taken 3 enclosures with equipment plugged into them, possibly including your server — we can not check it.”
Mr. Ostroumow said that the F.B.I. was only interested in one of the company’s clients but had taken servers used by “tens of clients.” He wrote: “After F.B.I.’s unprofessional ‘work’ we can not restart our own servers, that’s why our website is offline and support doesn’t work.” The company’s staff had been working to solve the problem for the previous 15 hours, he said.
Mr. Ostroumow said in response to e-mailed questions that it was not clear if the issues would be resolved by Wednesday.
It is not clear what the F.B.I. was looking for, or whether the raid was in response to recent attacks by hacker groups on corporate and government sites.
A government official who declined to be named said earlier in the day that the F.B.I. was actively investigating the Lulz Security group and any affiliated hackers. The official said the F.B.I. had teamed up with other agencies in this effort, including the Central Intelligence Agency and cybercrime bureaus in Europe.
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When the FBI came there supposedly was nobody at the server location. So they had no idea what their warrant referred to, which was surely less than what they took. They should have taken nothing until they obtained clarification.
Better put some ice on that...
Them who? The FBI or the hackers?.............
Yes, but I’m talking about hosting on servers that are physically not in North America.
That’s looking better and better, as I said.
No surprise whatsoever.
Just pointing out the (what-should-be-but-often-isn’t) obvious.
Yes, but if you are hosting something that criticizes the Obama Administration, you might not want the hardware to be anywhere they can easily get a seizure order.
Sorry.......the hackers.
Hard to tell nowadays.........FBI, hackers, terrorists, all seem the same..............
I thought the FBI can now come on your premises and search your house without a warrant.
Took this thing completely apart, Chief, but could not see any subversive data anyplace inside it.
Maybe I should not have used the sarcasm tag as most of them are above the law.
I did not want folks to think I thought that way.
Fully agree! I host and resell from The Planet in Texas - imagine if something like that happens there? Wow...millions will be down in a second all over the world. Scary.
You're giving them the benfit of the doubt. Do you really believe they considered the side effects?
I believe they really didn’t give a damn about the consequences to innocent parties. This is the cyber equivalent to “Kill them all, let God sort them out.”.................
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