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BitTorrent

Breaches
1
1 verified
Records Exposed
34K
Total across all breaches
Data Types Leaked
4
1 high risk
Latest Breach
2016
BitTorrent

Breach History

BitTorrent
Jan 2016Critical
34.2K
Records exposed
4
Data types leaked
Verified
Status

In January 2016, the forum for the popular torrent software BitTorrent was hacked. The IP.Board based forum stored passwords as weak SHA1 salted hashes and the breached data also included usernames, email and IP addresses.

Exposed Data Types
Email addressesIP addressesPasswordsUsernames
Incident Status
Data breachYes
Data brokerNo
Policy contradictionsNo
Exposed Data Types
Email addressesLow risk
IP addressesMedium risk
PasswordsHigh risk
UsernamesLow risk