It has been described as the “largest data massacre in the history of the internet”. The flamboyant founder of the file-storage website Megaupload, who calls himself Kim Dotcom, said he was in tears after being told that huge amounts of company data – some of it he claimed was evidence to be used in ongoing legal battles – had been permanently deleted by a European hosting firm.
A row broke out after Mr Dotcom posted on social media that he had been told the company which owns the servers that stored the data had “wiped” them all. He wrote: “All user data and crucial evidence for our defense destroyed ‘without warning’.”
But the Dutch server host LeaseWeb retaliated, insisting it had repeatedly tried to contact Mr Dotcom and his lawyers before deleting the information, but had received no response. In a statement, the firm said it had stored Megaupload data, which Mr Dotcom said included his own personal files, for more than a year for no fee and needed to offer the servers to other clients.
In a series of posts on Twitter on Wednesday, an apparently enraged Mr Dotcom wrote: “Millions of personal Megaupload files, petabytes of pictures, backups, personal & business property forever destroyed by LeaseWeb. Full story...
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A row broke out after Mr Dotcom posted on social media that he had been told the company which owns the servers that stored the data had “wiped” them all. He wrote: “All user data and crucial evidence for our defense destroyed ‘without warning’.”
But the Dutch server host LeaseWeb retaliated, insisting it had repeatedly tried to contact Mr Dotcom and his lawyers before deleting the information, but had received no response. In a statement, the firm said it had stored Megaupload data, which Mr Dotcom said included his own personal files, for more than a year for no fee and needed to offer the servers to other clients.
In a series of posts on Twitter on Wednesday, an apparently enraged Mr Dotcom wrote: “Millions of personal Megaupload files, petabytes of pictures, backups, personal & business property forever destroyed by LeaseWeb. Full story...
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