According to WiredFire, over 20 underground servers were seized in a raid at two hosting companies, Layer Tech and Server Matrix.

In total, boxes with hundreds of terabytes of data stored in total were taken away, 4 topsites were shut down directly because of the actions of the FBI, and the number of other sites that were slowed down, or shut down on their own, is not known.

In response to the busts, several people in the scene are urging people to abandon using Layered Tech and Server Matrix to use as seedboxes, fearing it is only a matter of time until they are noticed taken down.

The release groups and affils most affected by this raid are : FLAMES, SAGA, DiAMOND, NBP, F4GC and TBE.

This news article was written on June 9, 2006, quoting WiredFire.