There was an administrative subpoena, which was not signed off by a judge, but does carry significant legal weight.
replyThe Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) and Stored Communications Act (SCA) requires service providers to disclose certain types of data (IP addresses, physical address, other identifiers, and session times and durations) in response to an administrative subpoena. The actual content of communications is excluded.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/open-letter-tech-compa... disagrees that there was any legal weight here, but honestly I'm no expert and am curious if that's wrong. (I saw that link a while back, couldn't find it til now but should've just dug it up originally)
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