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Hack Exposes Pirate Bay User Data
tsu doh nimh writes "A group of hackers from Argentina recently broke into the database for thepiratebay.org, the Internet's largest torrent search engine, exposing user names, Internet addresses, and (MD5) hashed password data on more than 4 million users, according to Brian Krebs. He interviewed the leader of the group, Ch Russo, who said they briefly considered what the information would be worth to the RIAA and MPAA before going public with the breach. From the story: 'Probably these groups would be very interested in this information, but we are not [trying] to sell it,' Russo said. 'Instead we wanted to tell people that their information may not be so well protected.'"
Thank you, Mr. AC! Mod this one informative. I've been unable to browse teh pronz for the past couple of days as I can't log in, but you've given me new reason to live again.
That Anonymous Coward guy is pretty annoying. Can we have the government censor him or something?
Pirate Bay has porn torrents?!
Now I need to make an account!