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Operation PowerOFF

PowerOFF eight-domain action (April 2026, USAO Alaska wave)

April 2026, DDoS for hire
Led by United States Attorney's Office for the District of Alaska

Corrected and source linked. Verified August 21, 2026.

What was taken down?

Eight domains seized.[1][2]

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What happened to the people?

No individual outcomes are recorded against this entry.
Group accounted for: Not established

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Did it stay down?

Not established in the public record. No later activity is recorded against this entry.

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USAO Alaska and partner agencies seized eight domains as part of the recurring Operation PowerOFF campaign against DDoS-for-hire services.[1][2]

Date
April 2026
Target
Eight DDoS-for-hire booter domains, ddos for hire platform
Activity
DDoS for hire
Operational lead
USAO-AK
Jurisdiction
Not established
Outcome
Eight domains seized.
Status
Completed
Legal mechanism
Federal seizure warrants.
Group accounted for
Not established

No individual is named against this entry in the cited record. That is a gap in what has been published rather than a finding that nobody was involved.

Group accounted for: Not established

The cited record does not say how large the group was or whether everyone involved has been identified.

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Not established in the public record. No later activity is recorded against this entry.[1][2]

The re-verification pass changed 1 value on this record. What was there before is kept below so the change can be checked.

Field Was Now Why it changed
Record kind incident incident_component Reclassified to prevent double-counting the overlapping U.S. component and global April 2026 wave. Europol statement on the April 2026 Operation PowerOFF wave, PowerOFF: eight DDoS-for-hire domains seized

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Official sources

  1. [1]
    PowerOFF: eight DDoS-for-hire domains seized

    USAO Alaska, April 16, 2026, Source grade S2

    Establishes an eight-domain PowerOFF seizure attributed to USAO Alaska in April 2026.

    Open source
  2. [2]
    Europol statement on the April 2026 Operation PowerOFF wave

    Europol, April 17, 2026, Source grade P2

    53 domains seized, four arrests, 21 participating countries

    Open source
Coverage note. This appears to be a distinct US-domestic wave reported alongside the larger 2026-04-13 Europol-coordinated 53-domain/21-country PowerOFF wave already recorded as td_2026_poweroff_apr; recorded separately here pending confirmation of whether these are the same action reported with different domain counts by different sources or genuinely separate waves.