Federal police have shut down a network of websites responsible for distributing hundreds of thousands of child abuse pictures and videos through an internet domain connected to a tiny island off the Australian coast.
The domain has appeared on watchlists for child exploitation for the past decade.The Australian Federal Police has been working with the Shire of Cocos Islands to investigate websites using the personalised geographical domain .cc to distribute sexual abuse materials.
The AFP said investigations into the sites' administrators, contributors and users continued, and it would provide the IP addresses and identities of people who had visited the sites to the law enforcement agencies in all relevant countries. AFP Acting Commander of Cybercrime Tim Stainton said Australian domain names should not be a safe haven for illegal content.
"With our partners in law enforcement, we continue to chip away at one of he most distressing and abhorrent violations of human rights: the sexual abuse of children," she said.
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