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uTorrent Forums Hacked, Passwords Compromised (torrentfreak.com)

Posted by msmash on from the another-day,-another-hack dept.

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.

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  1. Nice of them not to notify users directly by gorbachev · · Score: 1, Insightful

    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.

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  2. uTorrent is still alive? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Ever since they loaded their program with advertising, I stopped using them.

    1. Re:uTorrent is still alive? by basecastula+ · · Score: 1

      Exactly. Once I got turned on to transmission, I never turned bacl.

    2. Re:uTorrent is still alive? by Dunbal · · Score: 1

      I have an older version before the ads, and I keep clicking "no" when it wants to update.

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    3. Re:uTorrent is still alive? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      You know you can just turn off updating in the settings, right?

    4. Re:uTorrent is still alive? by boudie2 · · Score: 1

      Still using utorrent 3.0 - works a charm!

  3. Least of your problems by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2

    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.

  4. Re:I never understood why people join torrenting f by bigfinger76 · · Score: 1

    Networking 101. Pay particular attention to the bit on VPNs.

  5. Through one of the vendor's other clients by manu0601 · · Score: 1

    The say they were compromised "through one of the vendor's other clients". Time to talk about could security?

  6. People still use uTorrent? by ocsibrm · · Score: 1

    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+