Showing posts with label Europol. Show all posts
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Saturday, 8 January 2011

Investigation finds group hijacking web servers to distribute child porn

Europol police carA criminal group has been discovered to be hijacking web servers in order to distribute child pornography, according to an investigation conducted by the Italian Postal and Communications Police and Europol, the European Police Office.

Europol said on Friday that its joint investigation has, since early 2009, resulted in the cleaning of more than 1,000 web servers worldwide in conjunction with the servers' owner. "The complex investigation is still ongoing, to identify the producers and connected criminals," Europol said.