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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.'"
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.
Sopssa is a fucking worthless troll. Remember it moderators.
Peace out!
I wonder how many instant enemies these guys have made overnight?
or my name isn't Bobby ';Drop Table Students;--' Tables.
xkcd
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.
Mod parent up, and cut the bullshit "Its not the same" rhetoric. Spew that faux moral bullshit elsewhere.
~Posting AC@Work
Part of Krebs's story is that he joined TPB's IRC channel in order to bring the issue to the mods' attention. He says he was taunted by mods who didn't believe he was a journalist or that he actually had anything, and then was kicked/banned after he posted the md5 sums for some administrative passwords. In this manner he makes the channel mods look like immature jerks, but I talked to the mod that actually kicked him not long after the story broke. Evidently the guy was typing like an idiot (multiple messages per sentence) and acting in a rather unprofessional manner. Too, the kick was not because of the hashes, which he posted over half an hour before the kick. I just want people to know the other side of the story.
Oh, and for the record, this leak isn't as big a deal as some might think. IP addresses can be gathered from the swarms themselves, email addresses used by TPB users should hopefully be throwaway addresses, and torrent hashes are inconsequential. Login details might be a problem for Trusted/VIP/staff accounts, but any serious users are not that concerned about this and would have changed their passwords/emails by now.
That Anonymous Coward guy is pretty annoying. Can we have the government censor him or something?
I like how *random hacker group X* is not accountable to anybody.
It offers possibilities for good and bad... all depending on the poltiical agenda of said group
Which only makes it even more incredibly sad that so many hacker groups go for a ridiculous Nationalist-with-a-big-N route.
Chinese, Iranian, Turkish, American, Argentinian, Chilean... fucling pathetic for a subculture that generally prides itself on non-alliance and independence.
narks.
Lifting the Lid on the Guilty Yid
The liberals got it exactly right. For years now they’ve been telling us how “vibrant” mass immigration has made stale, pale White societies. Well, London was certainly vibrating on 7th July and that got me thinking: What else have the liberals got right? Mass immigration “enriches” us too, they’ve always said. Is that “enrich” as in “enriched uranium”, an excellent way of making atom bombs? Because that’s what comes next: a weapon of real mass destruction that won’t kill people in piffling dozens but in hundreds of thousands or millions. Bye-bye London, bye-bye Washington, bye-bye Tel Aviv.
I’m not too sure I’d shed a tear if the last-named went up in a shower of radioactive cinders, but Tel Aviv is actually the least likely of the three to be hit. What’s good for you ain’t good for Jews, and though Jews have striven mightily, and mighty successfully, to turn White nations into multi-racial fever-swamps, mass immigration has passed the Muzzerland safely by. And mass immigration is the key to what happened in London. You don’t need a sophisticated socio-political analysis taking in Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Jewish control of Anglo-American foreign policy, British colonialism, and fifteen centuries of Christian-Muslim conflict. You can explain the London bombs in five simple words:
Pakis do not belong here.
And you can sum up how to prevent further London bombs – and worse – in three simple words:
PAKI GO HOME.
At any time before the 1950s, brown-skinned Muslim terrorists would have found it nearly impossible to plan and commit atrocities on British soil, because they would have stood out like sore thumbs in Britain’s overwhelmingly White cities. Today, thanks to decades of mass immigration, it’s often Whites who stand out like sore thumbs. Our cities swarm with non-whites full of anti-White grievances and hatreds created by Judeo-liberal propaganda. And let’s forget the hot air about how potential terrorists and terrorist sympathizers are a “tiny minority” of Britain’s vibrant, peace-loving Muslim “community”.
Even if that’s true, a tiny minority of 1.6 million (2001 estimate) is a hell of a lot of people, and there’s very good reason to believe it isn’t true. Tony Blair has tried to buy off Britain’s corrupt and greedy “moderate” Muslims with knighthoods and public flattery, but his rhetoric about the “religion of peace” wore thin long ago. After the bombings he vowed, with his trademark bad actor’s pauses, that we will... not rest until... the guilty men are identified... and as far... as is humanly possible... brought to justice for this... this murderous carnage... of the innocent.
His slimy lawyer’s get-out clause – “as far as is humanly possible” – was soon needed. Unlike Blair and his pal Dubya in Iraq and Afghanistan, the bombers were prepared not only to kill the innocent but to die themselves as they did so. And to laugh at the prospect: they were captured on CCTV sharing a joke about the limbs and heads that would shortly be flying. Even someone as dim as Blair must know you’ve got a big problem on your hands when there are over 1.6 million people in your country following a religion like that.
If he doesn’t know, there are plenty of Jewish journalists who will point it out for him. There’s the neo-conservative Melanie Phillips in Britain, for example, who never met an indignant adverb she didn’t like, and the neo-conservative Mark Steyn in Canada, who never met an indignant Arab he didn’t kick. Reading their hard-hitting columns on Muslim psychosis, I was reminded of a famous scene in Charles Dickens’ notoriously anti-Semitic novel Oliver Twist (1839). The hero watches the training of the villainous old Jew Fagin put into action by the Artful
C'mon guys...don't register your info with pirate bay. That's just stupid. It was only a matter of time. Just be glad it came from a hacker group and not the courts. Use these services anonymously until the legal crap is sorted out.
So here's a question. Who else has gotten into PirateBay's servers and NOT told them about it?
I'd think that an organization like PirateBay would be the very last people on Earth whom you'd want to give any sort of personally-identifiable information. I guess we can put this one into the "Darwin Filter" category.
side question: how many accounts are from president@whitehouse,gov, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington DC 20050 USA?
Everybody gets what the majority deserves.
Nothing at all.
1 - If they accept stolen information anything they do with it will be tossed out of court and taint any pending or future litigation.
2 - Having an account isn't grounds for anything.. I doubt even logs of what you searched for would be.
---- Booth was a patriot ----
...is why having to register for a tracker is utterly retarded. Having any kind of identifying info linked to any piracy is just dumb. Yes I know IP addresses and all that, but folks can use proxies. But a proxy doesn't stop anyone form gleaning your true whereabouts via cookies and other login related stuff.
What you are seeing right here in this article, is paid for marketing, promoting fear tactics to scare the masses. Registering at the Bay does not provide proof of illegal activities. There are plenty of legitimate torrents out in cyberspace and on Pirate Bay. Nothing to see here, move along folks.
I don't care - I live in Spain. Bring it onnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;-)
on the piratebay that is worth any salt is an idot..
you know you can fry stuff putting things into things that dont like the things you put into it...
Thepiratebay didn't salt their hashes. This site deserves to die.
In other news, people login to the most notorious torrent site around. Film at 11.
Why would anyone wanna hack into the pirate bay? Leave that up to the morons at the RIAA/MPAA... even if they can find a competent tech guru to work for them, at any price.
The RIAA/MPAA are the enemy, which means, you try your best to refrain from benefiting them. We already know that our private information isn't safe... all it takes is for a HR
rep at a government agency to lose their laptop.
This might be time, to eat our own. I certainly do not applaud this skit.
.torrent or it didn't happen. ;P
Carbon based humanoid in training.
....scare tactic.
Well, the RIAA might find out that millions of people are downloading artistic material that they claim to 'own'. And they would know who.
Would they launch millions of lawsuits against these people? Would they go to the ISP providers and demand that that these millions of people be denied service? And would they offer to compensate the ISPs for the millions of dollars in lost revenue?
Would they put a microchip like an RFID into the brains of each of these millions of people so that if these people ever again tryed to experience an artistic work by an 'artist' that they have downloaded then they would get a splitting headache for a day? You downloaded a Lady Gaga song once long ago to check out what the buzz on her was about and now whenever you see her picture in the mall the RFID chip in your head starts to blast migraines. So you don't ever go to shopping malls anymore and do retail shopping over the web instead? How many millions of people are going to be subjected to this before the mall owners get pissed?
Never forget: the RIAA is based on extortion. They don't care how many millions of people are downloading their product. They select a few people at random and focus their extensive brutal legal teams on these people, making their lives hell until they get paid off. The RIAA copyright 'violations' are just an excuse for extortion. If it wasn't copyright, then it would be something else.
We do have laws against this kind of thing. It's called RICO. It worked against the mafia and it will work against the RIAA.
If you ran a record company, and someone came to you with a list of the songs that people are willing to risk extortion to download and the names of those people, then you would have the perfect marketing tool. You know exactly who wants what in terms of artistic product. All that you don't know is the price that they are willing and able to pay. If they are downloading instead of buying, then the starting price point is too high. It's a negotiation beginning point; not a fucking Interpol crime. These downloaders are your customers, they are your best customers. Cultivate them; don't unleash the dogs of war against them.
Well they did lose hard core 4-0...so they have had plenty of spare time.......
It had to be an asshole from Argentina... what a place full of assholes.
perhaps everything has been dumped.????
Yet those bastards couldn't beat Germany, and now I've got to watch Spain in the finals.
They just set the data free and shared it. Only a fascist dinosaur shill for THE MAN would think otherwise.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
You don't have to hack it...I'll tell you, I did it.
(Waving flag, jumping up and down, flashing lights)
who wants to bet these ackers get a supoena from the RIAA and MPAA to realease there findinds on the basis of aiding and abetting copyright infringement. it will probably never fly in court but i can see them surely trying.
Allegedly broke in, until they actually show some proof, I find this just another tactic by those movie companies that are trying so hard to close down these sites...and secondly, for someone wanting to post anonymously or not using an account to post torrent files...
seems pretty simple to spread....just don't take in usernames and passwords, or log who posted what, but still have a star rating to know if the posting is worth downloading...
please tell, were those MD5s salted?
-- I was raised on the command line, bitch