Update: Northwood Studios Partner Terabit Hosting CEO Caught in Extortion Scheme
For those unfamiliar with the background, the owner of Northwood's hosting partner Curtis Gervais (Terabit.io / ByteFilter) sold confidential Path Network data to Rene Roosen (CosmicGuard / GameServerKings) as part of an $800,000 extortion plot. Investigators caught Curtis after he left the incriminating Signal conversations on his personal laptop.
Weeks after public US court filings revealed that Curtis had signed a sworn statement admitting to the entire scheme and selling out his co-conspirator, Curtis threatened Reddit with a Cease and Desist (C&D) letter to censor the story following my cross post about it. He falsely claimed that his sworn admission was sealed material, which was completely untrue. He did the same thing to popular webhosting forums like LowEndTalk from what I saw posted in their news section this evening.
Reddit forwarded a copy of the C&D, which can be viewed here:
Not only was the admission freely accessible via the public court portal the entire time, but Curtis has also completely failed in his legal bids to block the circulation of his statement and the evidence of his theft.
A US court officially ruled that Curtis' public sworn statement would not be sealed and would remain part of the public record. Curtis lost his attempts to hide his statement against Rene Roosen, and the document remains fully accessible on the Arizona court website despite his aggressive efforts to suppress it.
I recommend anyone using Terabit as an SCP host to consider not sending their money to a convicted swatter
"Heads-up teenage hoodlums! Don't SWAT Brian Krebs or else"
who couldn't even manage to set auto-delete on a Signal chat.