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The Pirate Bay Leaks User Data Like A Sieve

Posted by Farid Hajji on 8 July 2010, 10:11 am

The Pirate Bay’s user database was hacked by an Argentinian security researcher, who got access to IP addresses and E-Mails of torrent uploaders. TPB failure to hash those very sensitive data before storing them in their database is a major FAIL w.r.t. data protection.

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