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KTVT-Channel 11 ran a piece last night concerning an early-Thursday-morning FBI raid at 2323 Bryan Street downtown, site of an enormous Internet server hub. The shutdown, in fact, led to the temporary disabling of a significant number of Web sites yesterday. The feds specifically seized the computers from Core IP Networks’ data center, whose CEO, Matthew Simpson, posted a missive in which he claims no wrongdoing:
Neither I, nor Core IP are involved in any illegal activities of
any kind. The only data that I have received thus far is that the FBI
is investigating a company that has purchased services from Core IP in
the past. This company does not even colocate with us anywhere, much
less 2323 Bryan Street Datacenter. Currently nearly 50 businesses are completely without access to
their email and data. Citizen access to Emergency 911 services are
being affected, as Core IP’s primary client base consists of telephone
companies.
DSLreports.com has a wild guess concerning the raid: Just maybe it’s related to this week’s leak of X-Men Origins: Wolverine and the FBI’s investigation concerning the illegal sneak preview.
Update on April 5, 3:50 p.m.: No one believes this raid had anything to do with a Wolverine leak, least of all the writer of this post and those who’ve subsequently commented on it.
