CyberBunker

CyberBunker is a former military nuclear warfare bunker that is currently utilized as a bulletproof datacenter.^[1] They declared independence on August 1, 2002. In 1995 it was sold to a company under the control of its present "royal family" and "government".

During the Cold War, NATO maintained top secret hardened facilities all over western Europe. In 1955 a large command bunker was constructed just outside the small town of Kloetinge in the south of the Netherlands. The facility was designed to house 72 people in case of a nuclear attack and was used as a NATO Radio Base Band Relay Station, and for local espionage and counter-espionage. The facility comprises tunnels and operations rooms on four levels, one above ground designed as a decontamination area and three underground, with 5-meter-thick reinforced concrete outer walls designed to withstand a 20-megaton nuclear blast at 5 kilometers.

In 1996 NATO decommissioned the facility and all furnishings and equipment were removed. The bunker was sold in 1996 and became a data haven datacenter in 1998 with the name "CyberBunker".

1 Controversies
2 Gallery
3 References
4 External links

Controversies

Public-Root Termination and XTC Laboratory

By November 19, 2004, an operator of the CyberBunker, Herman Xennt was involved in many illegal actives including document forgery, embezzling funds from the Public-Root organization and running an XTC laboratory^[2] in one of the floors in the bunker. Herman Xennt along with a known hacker, Sven Kamphuis (who is the current operator of the CyberBunker as of March 2012) were involved with running a portion of Internet infrastructure in Turkey. Adding up all these factors, Joe Baptista of Public-Root Ltd revoked Herman Xennt rights to maintain a root DNS infrastructure.^[3]

Russian Business Network

CyberBunker has a long history of run-ins with the law. It was also a host of the infamous Russian Business Network cyber-crime gang broken up by the FBI and other law enforcement agencies.^[4]

The Pirate Bay

In October, 2009, in its efforts to avoid the law, Swedish BitTorrent tracker The Pirate Bay had moved its operations to the CyberBunker as its latest home (or hideout) for its controversial operations. The Pirate Bay had been chased by various anti-piracy groups including the Dutch anti-piracy organization BREIN, forcing The Pirate Bay to move outside of its home in Sweden to the CyberBunker.^[5]

SpamHaus

In October, 2011, Spamhaus identified CyberBunker as providing hosting for spammers and contacted their upstream provider, A2B, demanding service be cancelled. A2B initially refused, blocking only a single IP address linked to spamming. Spamhaus retaliated by blacklisting all of A2B address space. A2B capitulated, dropping CyberBunker, but then filed complaints with the Dutch police against Spamhaus for extortion.^[6]^[7]