🔗 BitTorrent

99.1k total records 50.6k unique accounts

About this breach

In January 2016, the Forum of the popular Bittorrent torrent program was hacked. The IP.board -based forum kept passwords in the form of weak hashas Sha1 with salt. The hacked data also included user names, email addresses and IP addresses.

Compromised Data

This breach exposed the following types of personal information:

📩
Email
50.6k
100% of accounts
👤
Nick
32.4k
64.1% of accounts
🔑
Password
16.1k
31.8% of accounts

Total data points: 99.1k

Unique accounts affected: 50.6k

🔐 What should I do?

  • Change your password immediately if you had an account
  • Enable two-factor authentication where possible
  • Monitor your accounts for suspicious activity
  • Be aware of potential phishing attempts

📊 Data Classes

📩 Email 👤 Nick 🔑 Password

API Access

Get information about this breach programmatically:

GET https://data-wells.niamonx.io/api/breach/BitTorrent