NEW YORK ( Web Desk) – A Federal Bureau of Investigation search warrant led to the seizure of a child pornography website with nearly 215,000 users, reported Huffington Post.
The search warrant showed that the FBI seized the website’s North Carolina server on February 20 but allowed it to remain operating for about two weeks while authorities investigated its users.
According to the search warrant the website operated on a network designed to facilitate anonymous communication over the Internet that protected users’ privacy.
The website, which began operating around August 2014, contained thousands of postings and messages featuring child pornography images and had 214,898 members, the warrant said.
The probe follows an earlier FBI investigation based out of Nebraska that resulted in the seizure of three child pornography online websites in 2012, two of which listed 5,600 and 8,100 members, respectively.
