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uTorrent Forums Hacked, Passwords Compromised (torrentfreak.com)
Popular BitTorrent client uTorrent's forum, which has over 388,000 registered members and sees tens of thousands of visitors each day, has been hacked. TorrentFreak reports: The uTorrent team was alerted to the issue by one of their vendors earlier this week. While the vulnerability didn't originate at the uTorrent forums, it was indirectly compromised. "The vulnerability appears to have been through one of the vendor's other clients, however it allowed attackers to access some information on other accounts. As a result, attackers were able to download a list of our forum users," uTorrent writes. The security alert is posted in the forums but as far as we know users haven't been notified individually. There is no mention of the massive security breach on uTorrent and BitTorrent's social media accounts either.
No notification from them in my email box.
I don't visit their forums daily, so a flash message on their forums isn't gonna do me any good. I suspect a very large majority of the registered forum users are inactive users like me.
In Soviet Russia, I ruled you
Ever since they loaded their program with advertising, I stopped using them.
uTorrent became ridden with malware and adverts a long time ago. I don't pity them.
If you're using uTorrent I think the forum being compromised is the least of your problems. If you've got uTorrent installed your whole PC is compromised.
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Since LUDDITE uTorrent used a LUDDITE forum instead of an appy app, LUDDITE hackers could hack their LUDDITE forum in two mouse clicks! If uTorrent used an appy app, then everything would be super appy, and LUDDITE hackers wouldn't have a clue!
Apps!
Even when they're not hacked, they're potentially massive honey traps. Suppose the operator of the forum is secretly working for the MPAA, collecting info and biding his time? What if he was an honest pirate, but later changes his mind? What if someone puts political or judicial pressure on him?
Networking 101. Pay particular attention to the bit on VPNs.
on the utorrent forums... now I might get a two factor attempt that I have to ignore
The say they were compromised "through one of the vendor's other clients". Time to talk about could security?
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah torrenterz and forumz died in a fire. good fucking riddance.
Honestly after all the adware nonsense and bloat I gave them up a good long while ago. I'm not really sure why anyone would particularly need to use their forums as well. Been using Deluge for at least a year+
he is probably mining bitcoin as we speak!
So what? Neither Torrents, Torrent clients, nor Torrent forums have anything to do with copyright violation.
Copyright infringement may not be the only thing torrents are used for, but to say that they haven't got anything to do with it is a lie and you know it.
It also doesn't change the fact that if you're a police (or other) agency investigating copyright infringement, and you could use a torrenting forum as a honeytrap, that would help your investigation a great deal. It would get you a list of potential suspects, and for those who after more investigation remain on the suspects list, their participation in the forum can help build a profile to strengthen the case against them.