VANISHING ACT: Where Did RACKED Go?

Anyone trying to visit our friends at RACKED yesterday would have had a hard time logging on, and if you think something shady was going on, then you would have been half right.

Early yesterday, FBI agents raided a Virginia data center and hauled away three racks of servers according to Gawker. Unfortunately, those racks contained the servers that handle The Curbed Network which includes the various editions of Curbed, Eater and Racked. Apparently, the feds were after the digital assets of one particular client (not Curbed) but many other websites were affected to varying degrees.

We still don't know who they were after, but everyone at Curbed got the day off yesterday while their boss, Lockhart Steele scrambled to find new servers. We are guessing that they will be back up any minute now, and those Racked bloggers will be back at work probably annoyed that they missed the day of H&M's big annual designer collaboration announcement.

FBI Raid Takes Down Mess of Websites (Gawker)