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fringe: Pirate Bay User Database Compromised and Exploited, Again
From: security curmudgeon <jericho () attrition org>
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 21:42:47 -0500 (CDT)
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Richard Forno <rforno () infowarrior org> To: Infowarrior List <infowarrior () attrition org> 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. [..] _______________________________________________ Dataloss-discuss Mailing List (dataloss-discuss () datalossdb org) Archived at http://seclists.org/dataloss/ Unsubscribe at http://datalossdb.org/mailing_list Learn encryption strategies that manage risk and shore up compliance. Download Article 1 of CREDANT Technologies' The Essentials Series: Endpoint Data Encryption That Actually Works http://credant.com/campaigns/realtime2/gap-LP1/
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