Russian authorities have raided NGINX offices in Moscow over a copyright infringement complaint filed by Rambler on December 4th, 2019. For those who are not familiar with NGINX, it is the world’s second-largest open-source web server owned by F5 Networks in San Francisco, California, United States while Rambler is a Russian search engine and one of the biggest web portals in the country.
Although details of the event are limited, according to a Russian language news website, Russian police carried out searches in the NGINX’s office and also detained Maxim Konovalov and Igor Sysoev, co-founders of the company. Both were freed after questioning but their phones were seized.
It is worth noting that F5 Networks bought the NGINX company in March 2019 for $670 million. According to Netcraft, 32 percent of all active websites are served by NGINX including Chinese Software Developer Network (CSDN), Twitch, Weibo, Dropbox, and Netflix, etc.
See: Russian Search Engine Rambler.ru Hacked; 100M Plaintext Passwords Stolen
On Twitter, screenshots of Rambler’s complaint have been circulating in the Russian language. However, English translation of it explains that Sysoev was accused of developing the software when he was a Rambler employee working as a sysadmin. Rumbler now claims that it owns full copyright on all NGINX source code as Sysoev was Rambler employee.
A tweet with Rumbler’s complaint:
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