Web hoster DreamHost says it has been asked to hand over more than 1.3 million IP addresses on visitors to a site that helped organize anti-Trump protests earlier this year. That data appears to include IP addresses, emails and physical addresses of the website owners, as well as similar details on all users of the site, such as information about messages submitted to the page and when they accesseddisruptj20.org. "The request from the [Department of Justice] demands that DreamHost hand over 1.3 million visitor IP addresses — in addition to contact information, email content, and photos of thousands of people — in an effort to determine who simply visited the website," wrote DreamHost. To be clear, that's 1.3 million IP addresses that hit the site, they're not all unique individuals, DreamHost confirmed to Forbes. Site owners hadn't responded to a request for comment at the time of publication.

Source: Forbes August 14, 2017 21:45 UTC