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FBI Seized Suspected Lulzsec Web Servers

The noose appears to be tightening on the merry band of miscreants.

From The Telegraph:

Agents seized servers run by DigitalOne, a web hosting company based in Switzerland. Several popular, legitimate websites including Pinboard, a bookmarking service, and Instapaper, a tool for saving web articles, were affected, prompting criticism that the raid was carried out in an “unprofessional” manner.

In an email to a client, published by the New York Times, DigitalOne’s chief executive, Sergej Ostroumow, said that in the “night FBI has taken three enclosures with equipment plugged into them, possibly including your server”.

They’re law enforcement. They don’t have to be delicate about matters when they’re seizing evidence. Hell, in years gone by they would bag up monitors as well. Count yourself lucky they only took what they did.

The real shame of it was that several other perfectly legitimate sites were impacted by the seizure. The joys of shared systems.

UPDATE: This was not their publicly facing web server.

UPDATE: Hmm. Seems it might not have anything to do with Lulzsec afterall.

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