Cloud owner in court over fraud to obtain IP addresses

By Juha Saarinen on May 16, 2019 9:06AM

Snagged over 757,000 IPv4 addresses.

An alleged elaborate scheme to fraudulently obtain and monetise increasingly scare internet protocol version 4 address allocations from the American Registry of Internet Numbers (ARIN) has landed a man in South Carolina and the cloud provider he runs in a US federal court. Amir Golestan, 36, of ...

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