Curbed, Eater sites knocked off line by the FBI *

* Update: They're back

Curbed LA, Eater LA and the sites they share ownership with are off the air because the FBI raided their server host in Virginia — looking for info on someone unrelated to Curbed — and grabbed their machines too. The outage has continued all day, says Curbed founder Lockhart Steele on Twitter. The FBI's raid was on the hosting service Digital One, and reportedly the target was the Lulz Security hackers. From the New York Times, quoting DigitalOne’s chief executive, Sergej Ostroumow:

"This problem is caused by the F.B.I., not our company. In the night F.B.I. has taken 3 enclosures with equipment plugged into them, possibly including your server — we cannot check it.”

Mr. Ostroumow said that the F.B.I. was only interested in one of the company’s clients but had taken servers used by “tens of clients.”

He wrote: “After F.B.I.’s unprofessional ‘work’ we can not restart our own servers, that’s why our Web site is offline and support doesn’t work.” The company’s staff had been working to solve the problem for the previous 15 hours, he said.