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BitTorrent Data Breach (2015)

BitTorrent

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Disclosed

January 1, 2016

3738 days ago

Records

34.2K

Confirmed

Root Cause

Hacking

Industry

Technology

Description

BitTorrent's forum, dedicated to its widely-recognized torrent software, experienced a security breach in January 2016. Utilizing the IP.Board framework, the forum had stored user passwords using a vulnerable SHA1 salting method. The data exposed in this breach encompassed usernames, email addresses, and IP addresses, in addition to the weakly hashed passwords.

Exposed Data Types

Exposed Data

PasswordsIP AddressesUsernamesEmail addresse
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