I am sure that many of you already know about the widespread
warez busts going on around the world in the last few days. The intention of this node is to show some of you the
scope of what is going on
Please note this is a work in progress
latest updates:
brianna lived in Adelaide in Australia
erupt and doc-x busted, lived in miami, there was a miami warrant executed and they are both dod members in miami
TUBS is down
HSG is down
RTiSO is down
RT is down
EVN (TFL affil) is down
iNSiGHT (rls group) temp down
EchoBase is down
FBi is down
EI is down
BBX is down (.no)
AKS is down(br)
TCP is down
R4E is down
DS3 is down
LS is down
mrzed not busted, zed was. sorry
sui and brianna were living together *UNCONFIRMED*
ME is down (DODiSO HQ, SHOCK, MYTH, TMG) TWi is down
LW is down
wanted: group affils for each person listed below as well as site affils
scene news:
heckler, zielin, wizy (risciso, til), sui (tfl/wlw), hackrat (wlw/razor/dod, california), shark (wlw/razor/dod; RatzHole siteop), thraxis (not busted; but raided -- 700 cds and computer; risc, pgc, dod, melbourne, Australia), maverick (from skidrow, not from omega), sony, bandido (razor, dod, risc council), eriflleh (dod council, philadelphia), bigrar (dod, risc, boston), avec (rts, rise, former DOD council, razor), buj (dod, Durham North Carolina), forcekill (dod, turku finland), radsl (dod, oregon), chevelle (dallas), billyjoe (austin), ievil (razor, an ircop), brianna (founder of WLW, lived with avec), superiso (inferno; got raided), zed (ran MG 0day,
WLW/MYTH) busted
SFM was fed site
CoreDump (CDiSO CDMP3) was fed site (site in nevada). but dr ice (site op) not busted ??
SFM and CD sites dropped out of the scene 2 days before busts for "group arguments"
RHiSO is down (hackrat operated)
rumor: hackrat busted 4 times
HO is down (DOD AHQ, chevelle's site)
TEN is down
AF1 is down (DOD affil)
PBL is down
BAN is down (down for security)
MT is down (DOD HQ, security)
PWH is down (DOD HQ, security)
BNS is down
DWS is down
HW is down
BR is down (security)
TWH is down
FE is down
LOF is down
PS is down (down a few days prior to busts and should've been sitting in the room ready to put HW into FE)
those 3 were sitting in the economics dept. of MIT, which would be the bigrar portion of the bust Razor announced
blackout, pciso division perm closed
DOD dead 100%
sui got busted and he's from TFL. also founder of WLW. WLW now dead
60 sites closed (.edu's mostly. closed in fear)
TRC retired
SKR, curry group, is shutdown (ran by maverick)
TheWretched and TheFrail (divx groups) also shutdown
Story: 5 fbi agents came to avec's house at 9:30AM CMT with federal search warrant. took 271 cd's. watched her computer for 2 hours.
FBI watched avec's computer for a few hours monitoring #worldsites, #eusites, and #usasites for 3 hours. all the channel sites. her shell was open
country busts:
2 people in finland got busted
6 people in britain (.uk)
7 people in australia
2 in norway
holland hit pretty hard
.se is safe at the moment
australia was hit (bandido)
27 cities in 21 states (including MIT, UCLA, Purdue, Duke, and University of Oregon)
Atlanta
Austin, Texas
Baton Rouge
Boston
Charlotte, N.C.
Chicago
Cincinnati
Dallas
Durham, NC
Cocoa Beach, Fla.
Houston
Indianapolis
Miami
New Haven, Conn.
New York
Newark, N.J.
Norfolk, Va.
Oklahoma City
Orlando, Fla.
Oxnard, Calif.
Philadelphia
Phoenix
Pittsburgh
Portland, Ore.
San Francisco
St. Louis
Washington
Wilmington, Del.
urls:
http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2001/December/01_crm_643.htm
http://cryptome.org/fbi121101.htm
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011211/tc/software_piracy_1.html
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,49026,00.html
http://www.msnbc.com/news/671058.asp
http://fast.quote.com/fq/acenter_research/xml_news?story=25679568&maxStories=15&symbols=DJ:69
http://www.washtech.com/news/regulation/14129-1.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1705000/1705079.stm
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,3420497%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html
http://www.jippii.fi/uutiset/ulkomaat/?mainmode=a&aid=50673