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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.