Mastodon got a data seizure while ago from kolektiva.social server and feds seized the SQL dumps of their instance along with all the mirrored instances including email and metadata after the admin got raided for participation in an antifascist protest, the interesting part is that feds raided the admin exactly while they decrypted their storage to fix their instance issues. Apparently the feds knew the timestamp of the admin’s logins and used the arrest warrant as excuses to seize the data. Feds don’t need to hack they just get seizure warrants lol.
Mastodon got a data seizure while ago from kolektiva.social server and feds seized the SQL dumps of their instance along with all the mirrored instances including email and metadata after the admin got raided for participation in an antifascist protest, the interesting part is that feds raided the admin exactly while they decrypted their storage to fix their instance issues. Apparently the feds knew the timestamp of the admin’s logins and used the arrest warrant as excuses to seize the data. Feds don’t need to hack they just get seizure warrants lol.
https://kolektiva.social/@admin/110637031574056150
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/07/fbi-seizure-mastodon-server-wakeup-call-fediverse-users-and-hosts-protect-their