FBI Raid Knocked Curbed LA, Eater LA, and Others Offline

A raid by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on a data center in Reston, VA had dire consequences for several blogs in the Curbed Network, including local favorites Curbed LA and Eater LA. The F.B.I. raided hosting service DigitalOne early Tuesday and confiscated servers containing Curbed Network data — though Curbed was not suspected of any wrongdoing. The NY Times has details:

DigitalOne’s chief executive, Sergej Ostroumow, said … that the F.B.I. was only interested in one of the company’s clients but had taken servers used by “tens of clients.”

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