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DoubleVPN infrastructure seizure
SEIZED

DoubleVPN infrastructure seizure

www.doublevpn.com

criminal VPN service

Last reviewed: 26 July 2026

Summary

International authorities took DoubleVPN offline in June 2021, seizing servers, domains, customer data, and logs. Europol confirmed that the service's web domains were replaced with a law-enforcement splash page.

Current assessment: ONLINE → SEIZED. Supporting sources appear below.

Before and after

BEFORE

Archived DoubleVPN service homepage five days before the seizure
Captured: 24 June 2021Status: ONLINE Source: Internet Archive Wayback Machine Resolution: 1920×1080SHA-256: 9b8a13fbadd547d351b5fa52b5b82bf385d9e5185595f8701c211bcbf56d9502

AFTER

International law-enforcement seizure splash page displayed on DoubleVPN
Captured: 29 June 2021Status: SEIZED Source: seized.fyi seizure-banner archive

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Status history

  1. ONLINE → SEIZED

    DoubleVPN infrastructure and domains were seized and the service was replaced with a law-enforcement splash page.

Record details

Domain
www.doublevpn.com
Category
criminal VPN service
Current status
SEIZED
Previous status
ONLINE
First seen
Not confirmed
Last seen
Not confirmed
Changed at
29 June 2021
Action type
service and infrastructure seizure
Agency
Dutch National Police, German Federal Criminal Police, United States Secret Service, Europol, Eurojust
Registrar
Not confirmed
Hosting provider
Not confirmed
Country
Netherlands, Germany, United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, Bulgaria, Italy
Related operation
Not confirmed

What happened?

International authorities took DoubleVPN offline in June 2021, seizing servers, domains, customer data, and logs. Europol confirmed that the service's web domains were replaced with a law-enforcement splash page.

No replacement domain or mirror has been confirmed.

Visual similarity alone is not treated as evidence of common ownership. Websites can copy each other. This remains one of the internet’s more dependable features.

Sources

  1. Coordinated action cuts access to VPN service used by ransomware groups

    Europol

    Type: official law-enforcement announcement · Published: 30 June 2021 · Accessed: 26 July 2026

  2. DoubleVPN seizure banner

    seized.fyi

    Type: seizure-banner archive · Published: 29 June 2021 · Accessed: 26 July 2026

  3. doublevpn.com pre-seizure capture

    Internet Archive

    Type: web archive capture · Published: 24 June 2021 · Accessed: 26 July 2026

Record quality

Before snapshot
Available
After snapshot
Available
Official confirmation
Not confirmed
Exact takedown time
Not confirmed
Last reviewed
26 July 2026

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