The Pirate Bay, arguably the largest torrent tracker and easily the most controversial one, has apologetically notified its users that a group of hackers managed to grab a copy of the user database, including usernames, passwords and e-mails, via a security hole in the site's official blog. Although the organization believes it knows who the hackers are, it has not said what it plans to do with this knowledge. On the positive side of things, the stolen information was encrypted and although the Pirate Bay seems confident with their encryption method, they still "encourage all our users to change passwords as soon as possible - and if you have the same password on the bay as other places, you should update them as well". Upon logging in, the user should be automatically prompted to change their password.
News source: The Pirate Bay Blog
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