Hackers Leak Thousands of Passwords From Large Private BitTorrent Tracker

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Late Tuesday evening European time, an individual set out to share information with the world that he appears to have had in his possession for some time.

Using the name ‘Afghanis’ he uploaded a torrent file to The Pirate Bay. It pointed to just 675K of data but today the effects are being strongly felt around the private BitTorrent scene.

“From Civilized Afghan Society, of course we do have stupid Talibans also but we do have very well educated people living in beautiful Kabul City,” a text file with the release reads.

“RevTT is hacked by Afghanistan Hackers !!!”

RevTT is short for RevolutionTT, a private BitTorrent tracker that was founded around 6 years ago with a reputation for indexing a wide range of content. It is unclear exactly how many users are on the site since its operators appear to hide stats from regular user view. However, all the indications suggest that there are at least 40,000 and very probably tens of thousands more.

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http://torrentfreak.com/hackers-leak-38000-passwords-from-large-private-bittorrent-tracker-120919/