So Who Actually Used Megaupload? Feds and Senate Staff, Founder Says.

Among the Megaupload users who lost access to their data when the Justice Department shut the file sharing site down in January were some Justice employees and U.S. Senate staffers, the site's founder Kim Dotcom told the blog Torrentfreak in a Monday post.

Justice officials seized the file sharing site, froze most of its content and charged seven site administrators with violating intellectual property rights Jan. 19.

Monday's Torrentfreak interview focused mostly on Megaupload's attempts to unfreeze the site so users can retrieve personal data.

"Guess what - we found a large number of Mega accounts from U.S. government officials including the Department of Justice and the US Senate," Dotcom told the blog. "I hope we will soon have permission to give them and the rest of our users access to their files."

Dotcom didn't say how many of the government users files infringed intellectual property rights.