December 31, 2007

Super Torrents PayPal Account hacked

The Bit Torrent tracker site Super Torrents have been hacked but not the site itself, as would have expected, the hacker found that the admin password was at a default setting or rather the same as other sites.

The hackers continued to have a look a around and instead of taking the site down or changing it in someway, they managed to get to the sites PayPal donations account where they found that the password was again the same.

In order to teach them a lesson the hackers made some donations of their own with the $2000 on deposit in the account. This money went a certain religious organisation that Super Torrents have been making some bad remarks about recently.

Source [Torrent Freak]