fringe: Pirate Bay User Database Compromised and Exploited, Again

[security curmudgeon <jericho () attrition org>]

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From: Richard Forno <rforno () infowarrior org>
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Pirate Bay User Database Compromised and Exploited, Again
Ernesto
20/03/2011

http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-user-database-compromised-and-exploited-again-110320/

In recent weeks many Pirate Bay users have received an email, allegedly 
sent by The Pirate Bay team, encouraging them to download a course on how 
to make money from the site. The email is clearly sent by spammers, but 
since this is not the first time the Pirate Bay user database has been 
exploited, users are starting to worry how it?s possible that their 
personal info is leaking out again.

Last summer a group of Argentinian hackers gained access to The Pirate 
Bay?s admin panel through a security breach. At the time, the hackers 
stated that they didn?t want to exploit the vulnerability, and merely 
wanted to show that the system was vulnerable.

The Pirate Bay team informed TorrentFreak that they were doing all they 
could to patch the vulnerability, and later said that the site was fully 
secure again. Two month later, however, it became apparent that The Pirate 
Bay backend had been exploited, this time by spammers.

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