FBI Steps Up WikiLeaks-Linked Probe With Texas, Germany Raids

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The U.S. is stepping up a search for participants in WikiLeaks-related cyber attacks on PayPal Inc. and other payment processors, raiding a Dallas company last month and coordinating a seizure of evidence with police in Germany, according to a request for a federal search warrant.

A Federal Bureau of Investigation raid of the Dallas computer server company Tailor Made Servers, which a person familiar with the case said occurred on Dec. 16, could provide investigators with information about the creators of chat rooms used by a group of WikiLeaks supporters that calls itself Anonymous. The group said it was behind more than two weeks of cyber attacks in December. /snip

The targets included EBay Inc.’s PayPal unit, MasterCard Inc., Visa Inc. and Moneybookers.com.

“We are looking into them,” Holder said on Dec. 9.

The attacks could be prosecuted as a conspiracy to cause damage to computer networks, a federal crime. /snip

Seven days after Holder spoke, FBI agents raided the server company in a Dallas industrial park, which uses one of eight Internet Protocol addresses globally that hosted the chat rooms, according to the affidavit in support of the search warrant.

Jose Quinones, a Tailor Made Servers employee, said by e- mail that the authorities asked him not to speak to the press about the raid. Special Agent Mark White, a spokesman for the FBI field office in Dallas, confirmed the raid but said he couldn’t provide details other than those in the affidavit.

Cyber security experts said the servers may contain detailed log information, including data that could lead investigators back to individual computers and their users.

“Those servers are likely to have logs showing certain events -- people setting up the server,” said Jose Nazario, a cyber security expert with Arbor Networks, based in Chelmsford, Massachusetts. “It gives you an indication of who the ring- leaders were.” /snip

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This, and other actions by The Man, make me feel suffocated. I hope we (and by we I mean those with the know-how to do it) stay ahead of these fucks. I know this sounds "tinfoilhat" but they are truly Oppressors.