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Hack Exposes Pirate Bay User Data

Posted by Soulskill on from the now-looking-for-a-torrent-tracker dept.

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.'"

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  1. Re:Not Worth Concern by bonch · · Score: 1, Troll

    With usernames and passwords, you can see what torrents an account has uploaded and seeded, as well as other stats. Pirate Bay is facilitating the distribution of illegal materials through their tracker, and being an uploader makes you equally culpable.

    Your "paid for marketing" accusation is absolutely hysterical and typical of the loony worldview pirates have.

  2. Re:Not Worth Concern by Andorin · · Score: 0, Troll

    and typical of the loony worldview pirates have.

    Given your other posts I would assume that by "pirates" you meant to say "people who disagree with me about copyright law."

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    That Anonymous Coward guy is pretty annoying. Can we have the government censor him or something?
  3. Re:Not Worth Concern by geekoid · · Score: 0, Troll

    uploading is copy right infringement, not downloading. Asshole.

    ""Copyright law is obsolete and should be disregarded--except when it protects my precious GPL code!" - Slashdotters"

    Three things.
    1) /. don't isn't a group mind. it has a diverse set of opinions.

    2) Almost everyone wants a reasonable copyright

    3) Thos that want no copyright want that for everything. In there mind the idea of a GPL is equally useless.

    Pirate bay is not distributing illegal materials. what? you downloading atomic bombs?

    The might be facilitating in the illegal distribution of copyrighted material*, but none of the material is illegal in civilized countries.

    You really have no clue what you are talking about.

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    The Kruger Dunning explains most post on /. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect