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Ukraine Latest to Crackdown on Illegal File Sharing Posted: 04 Feb 2012 06:08 AM PST
Usually, such takedowns quickly become a cause célèbre among hacktivists, who flock to avenge their demise. This particular case is no different. Following Ex.ua's takedown by the Ukrainian authorities, enraged Internet users attacked government sites in retaliation. These people targeted the official sites of the country's president and interior minister using the tried-and-tested distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) technique. In a statement on Wednesday, the Ukrainian authorities said Ex.ua had been under investigation since July last year, apparently after a number of companies complained against the site. But Microsoft Ukraine, one of the companies named as a complainant in the matter by the Ukrainian interior ministry, is said to have denied being the "immediate initiator of the EX.UA inspection" as is being claimed. The ministry claims to have seized 200 servers containing as much as 6,000 TB worth of files in a raid on the site's office. |
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