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.
Operation
Not confirmed
Agency
Dutch National Police, German Federal Criminal Police, United States Secret Service, Europol, Eurojust
Category
criminal VPN service
Action
service and infrastructure seizure
Before and after
BEFORE
Snapshot file unavailable. The metadata survived. Small victories.
Captured: 24 June 2021Status: ONLINE
Source: Internet Archive Wayback Machine
Resolution: 1920×1080SHA-256: 9b8a13fbadd547d351b5fa52b5b82bf385d9e5185595f8701c211bcbf56d9502
AFTER
Observed: 29 June 2021Status: Seized
Source:
seized.fyi archive record
Resolution: 1600×900Media: image/png · 1.4 MBSHA-256: 506105cb105241b28ebb9a94d21f8e855dd0ad3aaaceec38a513182153511584
BEFORE is shown only when a separately sourced public capture exists strictly before the
seizure date. AFTER is the content-addressed upstream seizure-banner object.
Associated domains
These are archival labels, not live links. A seized, expired, or reassigned domain is a poor
place to send readers without warning.
www.doublevpn.com
seized.fyi states that its domain lists are not always complete. Count: 1.
Why was it seized?
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.
