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.'"

Comments

Leak It

[SquarePixel]

After all the other leaked information via The Pirate Bay and Wikileaks (many username, password, email and ip lists like this too), I'd say it's only fair if they upload a torrent of it to The Pirate Bay and additionally send the same info for Wikileaks to publish.

Open information and knowledge is always for the better, right? It would be hypocrisy of them to remove the torrent.

Re:Leak It

[SquarePixel]

Which also is my point exactly. TPB has always said it doesn't interfere with the content and is only providing, like you said, a matchmaking service between clients. This content should also be fine then.

Re:Leak It

[pgmrdlm]

They dealt with a criminal web site(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay_trial) to perform criminal acts. They deserve to be robbed of their personal information. What goes around comes around. Hope the information is sold to other criminals so they can continue to be robbed just like these people continue to rob others. fuck em, they deserve what they got.

Incoming incessant sopssa trolling!

[Anonymous Coward]

Sopssa is a fucking worthless troll. Remember it moderators.

Peace out!

Marketing effort

[Anonymous Coward]

Note the last paragraph where he sells a subscription security service which will benefit from the notoriety. So I am left wondering if he is a black hat, white hat, or plain scumbag. I guess the success of his subscription sales will determine if he moves on to blackmail.

The pendulum swings both ways

[Anonymous Coward]

Mod parent up, and cut the bullshit "Its not the same" rhetoric. Spew that faux moral bullshit elsewhere.

~Posting AC@Work

Re:Not Worth Concern

[bonch]

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.

Re:Not Worth Concern

[Andorin]

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."

Re:Not Worth Concern

[geekoid]

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.

Had to be from Argentina

[Anonymous Coward]

It had to be an asshole from Argentina... what a place full of assholes.