{"id":94461,"date":"2016-06-09T11:23:45","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T09:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=94461"},"modified":"2016-06-09T11:24:29","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T09:24:29","slug":"bittorrent-users-are-the-latest-victims-of-hacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/94461-bittorrent-users-are-the-latest-victims-of-hacking","title":{"rendered":"BitTorrent users are the latest victims of hacking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The accounts of around\u00a035,000 BitTorrent\u00a0forums users were compromised in a recent hack, according to\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/haveibeenpwned.com\/PwnedWebsites#BitTorrent\" target=\"_blank\">Have\u00a0I Been Pwned?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/read\/another-day-another-hack-user-accounts-for-bittorrents-forum-hacking\" target=\"_blank\">Motherboard reported<\/a><\/strong> that the subsequent dump from the hack contained email addresses, IP addresses, salted SHA1 password hashes, and usernames.<\/p>\n<p>BitTorrent\u2019s forum is based on IP.Board,\u00a0software that has suffered\u00a0several data breaches, Motherboard reported.<\/p>\n<p>According to BitTorrent, the\u00a0vulnerability was\u00a0with one of IP.Board\u2019s other clients, but it allowed attackers\u00a0to access information on multiple\u00a0accounts.<\/p>\n<p>BitTorrent has told\u00a0its users to change their passwords.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>This article was republished with permission from <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/167891-bittorrent-forums-hacked.html\" target=\"_blank\">MyBroadband<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to This is how a Twitch troll lost R745,000\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/94189-this-is-how-a-twitch-troll-lost-r745000.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">This is how a Twitch troll lost R745,000<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to 8 times game studios nailed South African accents in games\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/94321-8-times-game-studios-nailed-south-african-accents-in-games.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">8 times game studios nailed South African accents in games<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to GOG Summer sale kicks off \u2013 Get System Shock 2 and other games for free\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/94291-gog-summer-sale-kicks-off-get-system-shock-2-and-more-games-free.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">GOG Summer sale kicks off \u2013 Get System Shock 2 and other games for free<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attackers have downloaded and dumped information from BitTorrent\u2019s forum database after a recent hack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":94465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,19287,19289,197,1461,10012],"class_list":["post-94461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-bittorrrent","tag-forum","tag-hack","tag-security","tag-torrent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94475,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94461\/revisions\/94475"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}