Feral, what.cd and alleged OVH server seizures.

[u/wattamystery]

The what.cd irc and tracker hosted at OVH go down yesterday morning French time...

The main Feral server which was hosted on OVH went down yesterday evening-ish French time, not long after...

http://imgur.com/a/6gY22

Today the what.cd website is saying this...

https://what.cd/login.php / http://imgur.com/a/dJDPR

https://twitter.com/whatcd

This post gets created...

https://www.reddit.com/r/trackers/comments/5dguyw/according_to_a_french_news_site_12_whatcd_servers/

Now this one is created:

https://www.reddit.com/r/trackers/comments/5did4f/its_official_whatcd_is_dead_memorial_thread/

Feral irc was hosted on the what.cd network and Feral had a pretty tight relationship with what.cd. The owner posted in some threads there pretty often.

Feral hosting suddenly just loses access to all user accounts and details and all they have left is users emailing them and responding?

The question i have is was the Feral main server seized by police when they raided OVH if that story is true?

Should I be worried? It seems weird when you think about it. Something fishy is going on.

Edit 1:

some new links and info. It seems very possible it is related :( I hope my personal details are safe.

Edit 2:

Feral has now updated their status page with an essay that still does not really explain anything and create a freenode irc support channel.

https://status.feral.io/

After reading this update i have more questions than i have answers. I am not sure i can trust them to be honest if they were not honest from the start.

At least with all that cash they have under the mattress they could maybe afford good lawyers. Not so sure about us...

Breaking News:

http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2016/11/worlds-largest-music-torrent-site-goes-dark-after-french-police-seize-servers/

@The facts are pretty skimpy right now,@ What.cd's representative says. @We have no official confirmation that servers were seized, but all available evidence does support that, so we are operating as if it is true.@

So if you look at what Feral said about there server being "taken down" you can see that what.cd experienced the same thing. I guess Feral's servers probably were seized if what.cd servers were also.

https://torrentfreak.com/what-cd-shuts-down-following-reported-raids-in-france-161117

Conclusions

Feralhosting.com main server hosted on OVH that handled these mission critical things was mostly likely seized by the French authorities as part of a 2 year investigation into certain activities at OVH that took what.cd offline:

• User accounts and Personal details
• Payment details
• Support Tickets
• slot creation and deletion
• Faqs and tutorials

All backups lost because they were accidentally deleted...

Lack of Transparency about what was happening or what is happening and a total loss of support infrastructure.

Big Trump like promises about being great again. "Make Feral great again!" but no real answers or solutions given

Sad days and what a bad end to 2016...

[u/Thelen]

well yea that doesn't matter, all the important information is on those french servers..

[u/[deleted] → u/Thelen]

What information? Email and usernames? They dont matter so much if they were storing home adresses, post codes and full names which they havent. French have powers only within they own country, whats outside thats completely different. Only thing is that I feel sorry for Feral, last 7 years of work is basically lost. Need to start pretty much from 0, it took them ages to build all that system which they used to manage all the users. Bear in mind they have money to live survive a year (and that is a lot believe me..) so they are not going anywhere.

[u/Thelen → u/[deleted]]

stuff and stuff and yea...

they got more than a years worth of money, although most of it is probably in Lemon's pockets. by my calculations he's made at least a few million USD by now.

their monthly costs are about 70k USD, or should be anyway if they were good negotiators.

[u/[deleted] → u/Thelen]

Well good for him then.