Federal agents on Tuesday searched the Washington-area offices of Carahsoft Technology Corp., a major distributor of information technology products to government agencies, according to people familiar with the matter.

It wasn’t immediately clear what prompted the search.

We can confirm that the FBI conducted court-authorized law enforcement activity on Sunset Hills Road this morning. We decline to comment further,” an FBI spokesperson said in a statement. Carahsoft is a privately held provider of IT services and software to the public sector.

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Still business as usual, we're told Virginia-based public sector IT services giant Carahsoft was raided Tuesday by US government agents.… "We can confirm that the FBI conducted court-authorized law enforcement activity on Sunset Hills Road this morning,

Officials confirmed the raid on the IT service provider's suburban DC headquarters but declined to provide further details.