Neowin News Feed for: Seized

Admin of an anarchist Mastodon server raided by FBI, insecure user data gets seized

Paul Hill — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 20:18:02 +0000

An anarchist-oriented Mastodon server has seen one of its admins raided by the FBI. The admin in question was working with an unencrypted backup of the Mastodon server, which was also seized. Read more...

KickassTorrents domains shut down; alleged owner arrested

Justin Luna — Thu, 21 Jul 2016 10:10:02 +0000

Popular torrenting website KickassTorrents was recently seized, as part of an order by the US Department of Justice. Its alleged owner, Artem Vaulin, was also arrested in his hometown in Poland. Read more...

132 websites seized for selling counterfeit goods

Andrew Stevenson — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 12:25:12 +0000

An operation conducted by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations has seized 132 websites selling counterfeit goods and more than $175,000 from PayPal accounts. Read more...

Video games seized from teen's home

giga — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 15:38:21 +0000

Acting on a Florida lawyer's suggestion that violent video games may have figured in Tuesday's slaying of a West Feliciana Parish man, sheriff's deputies searched the home of one teenage suspect again on Thursday. West... Read more...

Computers seized in anti-piracy sweep

Thu, 22 Apr 2004 23:29:09 +0000

Investigators seized 200 computers across the globe to break up online piracy networks that distribute copyrighted music, movies and software, the Justice Department said Thursday. The sweep, carried out in 27 U.S.... Read more...

$140 million counterfeit software seized

Tom Warren — Mon, 16 Jun 2003 14:42:11 +0000

Tens of thousands investigated using snooping software Italian Police have swooped on a major counterfeiting ring based in Italy and have nabbed €118 million ($139.8 million) worth of fake software, the Business... Read more...

Fake Compaq boards seized in New Hampshire raid

Fri, 15 Feb 2002 10:48:14 +0000

Thanks Darren Bolton for this sending this in. Counterfeit Compaq Computer Corp. parts were seized in New Hampshire after the company was contacted by a customer who received suspect memory boards from an... Read more...