'Robin Hood' Hackers Broke into BitTorrent Site

First of all, I chose to name the group of hackers 'Robin Hood', because they acted just like the famous hero: they stole the BitTorrent website's money and donated them to a Sikhi portal. Now, let me tell you the whole story: the hackers managed to steal the password of an administrator of the BitTorrent service, which was being used for several other services including his email.

"This all began a few days ago. Me and some friends were scoping around supertorrents irc network, when we discovered that they had a public prechan. Upon discovering this moderate scene security problem some friends and I decided to check the security of said prebot, turns out it was not so secure. Upon rooting the box and grabbing the unsecure predb and some scripts to play with we then rainbow tabled'd his password hash", the hackers explain the way it all started.

After messing around with the money, they decided it was the time to get into the Gmail account. The same username and password were available for this account, too, the hackers said. "From here we found some goodies like, his actual name which is only like 4 characters off from his nickname (idiot), his actual street address and even what car he drives (a 19 year old driving a Lexus IS300, I guess donations must be doing really well)", they added.

Moving all the unsolicited messages with Viagra and watches advertisements into the inbox was only one of the way that the hackers tried to make fun of the BitTorrent site admin. "At this point we just deleted his account, because maximum lulz were achieved", the hackers continued.

But this is not all: they logged in into the torrent's control panel and canceled all the seedboxes. "At absolute worst we have cleaned up some of this insecure torrent filth for at least a few days, between no servers and no more email to respond to softlayers questions."

According to TorrentFreak, Ersan, the affected torrent administrator, stated that his Gmail account is still available and nothing was really damaged.

"From what I can tell, the server that they're talking about was not rooted, but I'm going to reload the OS on it anyway. This has no effect on SuperTorrents in any way, it just screws with my personal email and finances for a few days. The worst part is not knowing the extent of the damages that have been done, if all that was done was what was stated above then I'll be fine. If they downloaded all of my emails and chat logs or something then I have a real problem on my hands", he explained according to the source mentioned above.

Obviously, the hackers came out and gave a pretty amusing reply: "Nice attempt at damage control. :/ We do have your real street address, among with a few others you were using. If we were just going to blank it out anyway, whats it matter? Shouldn't you be happy we did that, I guess we could go with the unedited copies of your name and addresses for the third notice. You just made an order XXXXXXX.com (lol, nerd) would you like us to post the usps tracking number & address?", they said according to TorrentFreak.