In the first half of the year the polish hotline Dyżurnet.pl received 13,640 reports regarding potential child sexual abuse material (CSAM). Of this number, analysts confirmed 10,231 URLs containing CSAM.


February and June were exceptional in this respect, when the British hotline – Internet Watch Foundation, as part of the cooperation of the INHOPE Association, sent a total of 9,410 reports regarding content on the Polish servers. In February, there were 1,310 reports regarding a hosting service located in the .ua domain and which had been reported 3 to 5 months earlier, each time on a different server IP address (so-called wandering server). The content was removed from the Polish server within 24 hours of Dyżurnet.pl reporting it to the hosting provider.

In June, the IWF sent 8,100 reports. All reports concerned one hosting image service in the .in domain. Access to the images was possible by entering a password found on another website that had links to them or by entering a http referer (which was provided by the IWF). This is the first image hosting service analyzed by Dyżurnet.pl, which displayed images only after entering the appropriate referrer.

After a few days, the website changed its location to North America, and after another few days to China. Unfortunately, it found a safe heaven there and the content is still available. Apart from reports from the IWF, the most common form of illegal content depicting child sexual abuse reported by users to Dyżurnet.pl was the so-called CAP-site (child abuse pyramid). Of the 710 websites, 434 were CAP-sites, which constitutes 61 percent of websites with CSAM analyzed by Dyżurnet.pl. 77 percent of them are on servers located in the Russian Federation.