Now, 1 of the most pop sites owned as well as operated past times the FBI has been serving adult videos every bit well.
FBI-owned Megaupload.org as well as several other domains were allegedly serving upwards ads for "casual sex," "adult cam chat," "adult thing dating," as well as "live gender activity cams" as well as other 18+ entertainment.
Megaupload was 1 time a famous as well as highly pop site for pirate as well as copyright contents that way seized from Kim Dotcom close 5 years ago.
Since a criminal illustration against Dotcom is even as well as then pending inwards the United States, the FBI too retained command over several of the company’s assets, including cash, cars, as well as over a dozen of Megaupload’s onetime domain names, including Megastuff.co, Megaworld.mobi, Megaclicks.org, Megaupload.com, as well as Megavideo.com.
Initially, these Megaupload domains served a banner indicating the federal agents had seized them every bit role of a criminal investigation, those users who visited the site yesterday were surprised to meet soft adult ads, offering links to adult entertainment.
But, How did this Happen?
'Lost control'
Yes, the hijacking of the Megaupload domains was non the resultant of merely about sophisticated hack that allowed hackers to serve yous soft adult and adult ads, rather the FBI had "lost control" of the domains inwards the same way it lost command concluding year.
TorrentFreak suggests the FBI forgot to renew an expired domain, CIRFU.NET, which the feds used for their "name server" to redirect traffic from sites it had seized, as well as that somebody else merely buy it as well as linked it to the Megaupload domains.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation barbarous into the same trap concluding twelvemonth when the spider web addresses it seized led people onto to sites peddling adult, imitation safety software, malware, adware as well as bogus exceptional offers.
Though the federal regime reportedly removed the nameservers altogether to laid upwards the issue, the exact identity of who got command of Megaupload.org as well as its associated sites is non known. However, it is clear that the feds conduct keep non learned from their past times mistakes.
The FBI has yet to comment on what happened to the domains.
