In a new video statement posted on Monday, the administrator of novelty e-mail provider cock.li announced that one of the hard drives used to host the service in a Bavarian data center had been seized

"That means that SSL keys and private keys and full mail content of all 64,500 of my users, as well as hashed passwords, registration time, and the last seven days of logs were all confiscated and now are in the hands of German authorities," Vincent Canfield said.

Cock.li was reportedly used last week to send a bogus bomb threat e-mail from "madbomber@cock.li" to several school districts nationwide, which led to the closure of all schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District. The New York City Department of Education, however, dismissed the e-mail as an obvious hoax.

Canfield explained that cock.li is still operational, as the service was hosted on a server utilizing a pair of drives in a RAID1 (mirrored) configuration. One of the drives has been taken while the other mirror drive is still in use.

"I’ve been advised not to speculate on this, so I’m not going to," he added. "You can draw your own conclusions based on stuff that’s been happening. I will say that I have the utmost respect for law enforcement. I’ve always been complicit in things that they’ve asked when it involves getting an actual legal order for getting user information. As well as stuff that isn’t affected by my privacy policy—stuff that people say on IRC or via e-mail or stuff like that—I’ve forwarded on to authorities and I’ve always been complicit with that, with the US authorities, but I’ve had no dealings in the past with the German authorities at all. I have no idea why this is happening."

Canfield also said that he had retained Jesselyn Radack, a well-known attorney who also represents Edward Snowden and former National Security Agency whistleblower Thomas Drake.

Last week, when Ars asked Radack how she came to be his lawyer, she responded: "When it comes to the [United States] overreacting about supposed terrorist threats, there are not many national security attorneys from the non-government side accustomed to dealing with innocent people caught in the cross-hairs."

Ars asked if Canfield had been charged with a crime, to which she said no.

"And running an e-mail hosting service is not a crime," she added. "However, when you're being hit with law enforcement subpoenas containing constitutionally dubious gag orders, it makes sense to have legal guidance."

The Romania-based e-mail admin concluded his video with this proclamation: "It’s raining dicks right now. And the forecast isn’t that good either. There’s a 90 percent chance of dicks tonight and a 90 percent chance of dicks tomorrow."