A couple who say that a company has registered their home as the position of more than 600 million IP addresses are suing the company for $75,000.
James and Theresa Arnold, who live on a farm near Potwin, Kansas, say that MaxMind have made their lives “digital hell,”
The pair’s home has been linked to the IP addresses because it’s close to the geographical center of the United States.
MaxMind chose the location of the property, which the couple have rented since 2011, as the default spot for any IP addresses they couldn’t pinpoint further than by country.
It’s meant that the pair been investigated for a host of nefarious activities linked to some of the IP numbers. They received a visit by Butler County Sheriff’s Department looking for a stolen truck amid several other intrusions, according to documents filed with a Kansas court.
It gets worse.
(Sourced from agencies, Feature image courtesy:soehnle.de)
