FBI Raids Dallas Data Center
You probably heard or read about this yesterday: somebody leaked a copy of the upcoming movie X-Men Origins: Wolverine, making it available for download online. The film isn’t due until May 1. Now, because the leak is online, the news fits into a tech blog, but even I will admit that it does so only by the slimmest of margins.
What happened today is actually more in line with what we usually see here. The FBI has gotten involved and it recently raided a data center in Dallas. Why? Supposedly because of the leak.
FBI agents have raided a Dallas data center, seizing servers at a company called Core IP Networks. The company’s CEO has posted a message saying the FBI confiscated all its customer servers, including gear belonging to companies that are almost certainly not under suspicion. The FBI isn’t saying what it’s after, but there are reports that it’s related to video piracy, sparking unconfirmed speculation that the probe is tied to the leaking of Wolverine.
I’ll keep a close eye on this story to see how it develops. It’ll be interesting to see what kind of data they can get from the servers and how they can track the source of the leak—provided the speculation is true, of course.
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