For reasons unknown, the FBI raided a data centre and seized several servers, causing known online brands, including Pinboard and those in the Curbed network, to go offline.
New York Times‘ Bits blog says that the data centre is owned by DigitalOne, a Swiss company operating in the US.
“The raid was on a hosting facility in the United States used by DigitalOne, a company based in Switzerland. It was not immediately clear what the F.B.I. was looking for.
In a note to one of its clients, 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.’”
DigitalOne says everything the FBI was after revolved around a single client. Yet they took more server racks than required (three enclosures worth, to be exact). As a result, Pinboard has been left running on a backup server, and the Curbed sites are still down. What’s on those servers? [NYT]
wsDK_II - Anon and Lulz participant
Wednesday, June 22, 2011 at 10:16 AMahh the FBI – slightly better then the police, but still so dumb
Feral
Wednesday, June 22, 2011 at 12:05 PMLulz..
Anonymous
Wednesday, June 22, 2011 at 12:26 PMClearly they’re either searching for the Black Pearl or The Lulz Boat.
Set Sail for Fail!!
John Oh
Wednesday, June 22, 2011 at 12:45 PMThat will keep them busy for quite a few years. First they have to obtain a hacker or train one….
Working for the FIB, not many can be trained. I wonder why they didnt try to download the INTERNET. They could have worked from home…
ChemZ
Thursday, June 23, 2011 at 4:45 AMThey probably just looking for an easy way to add porn to their collection… =P