Pirate Bay hacked, database stolen

[Virus]

Hackers have broken into The Pirate Bay and hijacked the bit torrent tracking site's entire user database.
The Pirate Bay
According to an alert posted on The Pirate Bay's blog, the stolen user credentials were encrypted but the site is still urging users to immediately change usernames and passwords to avoid the risk of identity theft.

They have got a copy of the user database. That is, your username and passwords. But, the passwords are stored encrypted, so it's not a big deal, but it's still very sad that it's out there. All e-mails are for instance encrypted as well, they will most likely not be able to decrypt them either (they are _very_ encrypted).

We encourage all our users to change passwords as soon as possible - and if you have the same password on the bay as other places, you should update them as well.

[Virus]

My current d/l's still in progress but cant access site without
Username
P/W


Sucks areses

[evo-STI-k]

hmm- like the legal music industry hired hackers to try and stop one torrnt site with mp3's!

[benko]

My current d/l's still in progress but cant access site without
Username
P/W


Sucks areses

orly?? that doesn't sound correct.

[Michael Knight...]

Wow, who would have thought.

[Freelander]

newsgroups ftw

[Raziel]

If you used anything other than a "dummy" email address and username with a site like Piratebay, then you pretty much looked for what you get

[Mr. Go Slow]

If you used anything other than a "dummy" email address and username with a site like Piratebay, then you pretty much looked for what you get

You do know I use your work email whenever I sign up on any 'questionable' web site