Public breachBreachXposedOrNot· 1 Jan 2016
BitTorrent
Domain: bittorrent.com
What happened
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.
Breach facts
- Records exposed
- 34,233
- Sensitive
- No
- Industry
- Information Technology
- Data exposed
- Email addresseIP addressesPasswordsUsernames
This page summarises publicly reported breach metadata for awareness. For account recovery or incident response, use the official guidance from the affected service.
Breach data provided by XposedOrNot.