gHacks technology news » userbase http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:31:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 User Data Stolen from The Pirate Bay http://www.ghacks.net/2007/05/11/user-data-stolen-from-the-pirate-bay/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/05/11/user-data-stolen-from-the-pirate-bay/#comments Fri, 11 May 2007 12:12:48 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/05/11/user-data-stolen-from-the-pirate-bay/ Two hours ago bkp made an announcement on the official The Pirate Bay blog confirming that some hackers have been able to use a security hole in the blog software to get access to the user database of The Pirate Bay. Information stored in there are the username, the password and the email address of the user who signed up. The password and the email address are encrypted which means that the hacker is most likely unable to receive any valuable information from the data.

Bkp also said that they know who did this but does not say how they know. He could be referring to IP addresses that they found, other traces or confidential information. They ask every user to change the password during their next login which is apparently happening automatically at the very moment. It remains to be seen if the encryption used to encrypt the email addresses is strong enough to withstand decryption.

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