Hackers Plunder Pirate Bay User Data

Hackers have plundered The Pirate Bay for its treasure, in this case the booty is the e-mail addresses, IP address and user names of four million of the site's users, according to several reports.
A group of three hackers from Argentina have taken credit for the attack, according to an interview posted by Krebs On Security with one of the hackers, a 23-year-old who calls himself Ch Russo.

In the interview Russo claims that he and two other buccaneers uncovered multiple SQL injection vulnerabilities on The Pirate Bay, a widely popular file sharing and torrent site. By exploiting the vulnerabilities, the trio was able to access 4 million usernames, e-mail addresses and IP addresses.

Russo reportedly toyed with turning the data over to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), which could prosecute The Pirate Bay users for copyright infringement and other violations.

"Probably these groups would be very interested in this information, but we are not [trying] to sell it," Russo told Krebs On Security. "Instead we wanted to tell people that their information may not be so well protected."

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