That address just happened to be the Arnolds’ property, a remote farm that is located slap-bang in the middle of America. A Kansas family whose remote farm was visited “countless times” by police trying to find missing people, hackers, identity fraudsters and stolen cars because of a glitch is suing the digital mapping company responsible. According to the complaint, the husband and wife team dealt with five years of “digital hell” after moving into the property in Butler County, Kansas, in 2011. There was no such server on the property, say the Arnolds; it was all down to MaxMind’s mapping error. IP mapping isn’t an exact science and so MaxMind assigns a default address when it can’t identify its true location.

Source: The Guardian August 09, 2016 20:37 UTC