The FBI has raided a data center in the Us state of Virginia a large number of web servers of the Swiss firm DigitalOne seized. To keep the seizure in connection with an investigation into LulzSec.
FBI agents on Tuesday datacenter and DigitalOne, located in the town of Reston in the state of Viriginia, invaded, and have at least three racks of servers seized, reports The New York Times. By the action is an unknown number of websites partly or wholly unattainable become, including the storage service Instapaper and the bookmarkingsite Pinboard.
Although the FBI inconclusive wants to give the precise reason for the invasion, the opsporingsorganisatie probably looking for hackers. May play also an investigation into LulzSec, a role. It is known that the FBI together with colleagues abroad a manhunt is begun, in the hope members of the hackersgroepering to be able to including.
DigitalOne ceo Sergej Ostroumow reports in an e-mail to a customer that the company information about a suspect ip address to the FBI has passed. The seizure of complete racks qualifies, however, he is as ‘unprofessional’ and would re-make of its data center very difficult. According to Ostroumow, the FBI had, perhaps, the idea that a web server is equivalent to a complete server rack.