FBI Shuts Down Entire Hosting Provider Because of Alleged Activity of a Single Customer
April 4th, 2009Via: PCWorld:
U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation agents have raided a Dallas ISP, knocking the company and almost 50 of its clients offline.
The early morning Thursday raid closed down the operations of Core IP Networks, which operated out of two floors of a Telx collocation facility at 2323 Bryan Street in Dallas. The raid had to do with the activities of a former customer, according to Matthew Simpson, Core IP’s CEO. “The FBI is investigating a company that has purchased services from Core IP in the past,” he wrote in a note posted to a Google Sites page. “This company does not even collocate with us anywhere, much less 2323 Bryan Street Datacenter.”
He did not name the company that is allegedly at the center of the FBI investigation.
FBI spokesman Mark White confirmed that agents had executed a search warrant at the 2323 Bryan Street address on Thursday, but declined to comment further on the matter.
“Currently nearly 50 businesses are completely without access to their email and data,” Simpson wrote. “Citizen access to Emergency 911 services are being affected, as Core IP’s primary client base consists of telephone companies. ”
Simpson said that his company was not involved in any kind of illegal activity. He could not be reached immediately for comment.
It is unusual for the FBI to shut down an entire hosting provider because of the activity of a single customer.
Another move toward the Fourth Reich from Oberreichfuhrer Robert Mueller of the FBI.
I live in Dallas and our Mail server was one of the ones taken. I would say I cant believe that this would happen, But I can. So until we get the server back we wont have access to customers emails. No one cares either.
Well, for all the Believers . . . There’s the Hope and Change for you.
Spud, there are people who care, just too few and far between.
“When the wicked rule, the people mourn”.
Someone recently said, “They’re coming.” Wrong. They’re here.
Hi Spud,
re ” So until we get the server back”
Get you data out and run to another rack, host, provider ect.