An advertising firm’s website was suspended by President Trump’s Department of Homeland Security.
Brighton (UK) creative agency Designate.com stopped receiving emails on Tuesday, February 11.
It took more than a week to get its website and emails back up and running after a court in New York ruled it was an innocent victim in a case of mistaken identity.
Its website name was wrongly included on a list of sites thought to be linked to prostitution and suspended by the US authorities.
Designate’s executive director Jason Triandafyllou said the team was amused but also deeply concerned by the implications of the mix up.
He said: “People started calling us up and saying ‘have your emails stopped working?’. We got on to our IT support company and they told us that anyone trying to access our website would just see a message saying our website had been seized.
“Initially we thought maybe we had been hacked.
read more (the Argus uk) Taking back control – but from whom? (Designate blog) Twitter (Designate)
Brighton (UK) creative agency Designate.com stopped receiving emails on Tuesday, February 11.
It took more than a week to get its website and emails back up and running after a court in New York ruled it was an innocent victim in a case of mistaken identity.
Its website name was wrongly included on a list of sites thought to be linked to prostitution and suspended by the US authorities.
Designate’s executive director Jason Triandafyllou said the team was amused but also deeply concerned by the implications of the mix up.
He said: “People started calling us up and saying ‘have your emails stopped working?’. We got on to our IT support company and they told us that anyone trying to access our website would just see a message saying our website had been seized.
“Initially we thought maybe we had been hacked.
read more (the Argus uk) Taking back control – but from whom? (Designate blog) Twitter (Designate)
