The infamous Swedish police raid that took down The Pirate Bay last year apparently never happened, according to the TPB team.
Swedish police raided the Nacka station datacenter, a Cold War era nuclear proof bunker turned into a secure hosting facility, in early December last year. Quickly following the raid, The Pirate Bay went offline, and most believed at that time that the police raid had successfully taken down the world's most popular pirate site. Worse yet, many feared private data were now in the possession of authorities.
Over the next couple of months, The Pirate Bay website was updated with cryptic clues, and it wasn't until nearly three months later that the Pirate Bay returned. And even then, many people believed that what returned wasn't the same as what was there before, despite there being zero data loss present.
And it's only until now that the TPB team has revealed just exactly what happened. Speaking to TorrentFreak, the TPB team says that the raid only took out one TPB server (crew.thepiratebay.org) which was used by moderators for private communications, and the take-down itself did not affect TPB operations at all.
The crew server did contain data that TPB felt could compromise the website, and coupled with the arrest of one moderator, the team decided to move cloud providers as a precaution. This necessitated the site going down, but the unexpected difficulty in moving to a different provider and the subsequent code re-write to fix these issues for good meant that the downtime was a lot longer than planned.
And the cryptic messages on the TPB front page? According to the TPB team, it was simply a bit of fun, to fuel the crazy conspiracy theories surrounding the site's downtime.
As for why it has taken so long for all of this information to be revealed, the TPB team says that this too was precautionary, to ensure nothing was compromised, especially when it came to the moderators. This was also why the site's moderators were kept in the dark about the site's relaunch in February, and moderator functions were disabled in the relaunched site.
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