The hosting provider promised protection from police requests. Dutch police say they recovered data from more than 3,000 customers and are pursuing follow-up investigations.
Dutch police say they seized dozens of physical servers in Limburg, taking hundreds of Virtualine’s virtual servers offline. BleepingComputer, covering the police announcement on October 28, 2026, said investigators had also recovered data from more than 3,000 customers.
The seizures disabled customer servers running on those physical machines, going beyond control of the provider’s web address. The FBI seized Virtualine’s main domain, virtualine.net, on October 27.
The FBI’s Washington Field Office led the investigation with Germany’s Polizei Hessen, the Netherlands’ Politie Midden-Nederland and the UK’s National Crime Agency. The Midden-Nederland cybercrime team carried out the server seizures.
Virtualine advertised “bulletproof hosting”: server services that promised to shield customers from legal complaints and requests from police and other authorities. It also operated under the names Secury, Massgod, Spamhouse, Lanedo and Omegatech.
Dutch authorities allege that Virtualine had facilitated cybercrime since at least 2022. They list ransomware, which locks files to demand payment; botnets, or networks of compromised devices; information-stealing software; phishing scams that trick people into revealing sensitive information; and distribution of child sexual abuse material.
The US Justice Department alleges that Virtualine knowingly hosted a forum promoting child sexual abuse material and ignored repeated notices. Virtualine’s administrator rejected that allegation in an open letter on virtualine.org, while saying allegations about the service’s illegal activities and customers deserved a fair investigation.
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Virtualine remains partly online. Cybersecurity company Silent Push said Omegatech’s blocks of internet addresses had very low visibility in routing data—the information networks use to direct traffic. That suggests much of the infrastructure may be unreachable, but does not amount to a complete shutdown.
The server seizures and recovery of customer data are complete. Dutch police say follow-up action concerning customers is underway, moving the investigation beyond the hosting provider to those who used it.
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