Submission + - The Pirate Bay hacked, passwords stolen
thefickler writes: Registered members of The Pirate Bay, Internet site that claims to be "the world's largest BitTorrent tracker," will certainly wake up to a surprise this morning to read that their usernames and passwords were stolen by a group of hackers, according to TECH.BLORGE.com.
Ironically, the security hole that allowed the hackers to obtain access was not through the tracker itself, but through The Pirate Bay's official blog.
"Some people (and yes, we know who) found a security hole on our web site (in fact, actually in this blog)," said BKP on The Pirate Bay blog. "They have got a copy of the user database. That is, your username and passwords."
Ironically, the security hole that allowed the hackers to obtain access was not through the tracker itself, but through The Pirate Bay's official blog.
"Some people (and yes, we know who) found a security hole on our web site (in fact, actually in this blog)," said BKP on The Pirate Bay blog. "They have got a copy of the user database. That is, your username and passwords."