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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I can’t get on Rush’s site. Co-inky-dink?
I just did.
Welcome to 0bama world ...
Must be your server. I just got on no problem...................
Maybe the reason was to send more web hosting companies off shore.
Thanks. Must just be the FR link. I did get on via Google.
For ping list
They had it coming. There was a picture of Jesus Malverde in the server room.
I am not a lawyer, but it appears to me that the FBI may have violated federal laws by tampering with communication facilities not directly the target of authorized investigative activities.
I’m watching them in a chat room right now. They’ve hit the Petrobras site in Brazil.
And you're surprised?
ML/NJ
Government employees are now all above the law. /sarc
I was wondering why there was a massive drop in scam mail.
“Government employees are now all above the law. /sarc”
Yup... They can even get away with murder. /sarc
Offshore hosting keeps looking better and better.
To the heavy fisted thugs that govt is becoming, they're immune to any law that the rest of us mere mortals is liable to.
If Project Gunrunner and the ATF airport grope opportunities and the status of our illegal alien laws don't lead you to believe this, you're not watching closely enough.
The govt now chooses which laws it is subjected to and which the rest of us are.
Of such stuff are tyrannies made!
Godspeed and God help us
HoA
This is standard practice, has been for years. Still isn’t right.
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