{"id":167891,"date":"2016-06-09T10:57:46","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T08:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=167891"},"modified":"2016-06-09T10:59:09","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T08:59:09","slug":"bittorrent-forums-hacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/167891-bittorrent-forums-hacked.html","title":{"rendered":"BitTorrent forums hacked"},"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&#8217;s 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&#8217;s 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<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on security<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/167857-south-africa-one-of-the-countries-most-vulnerable-to-hacking.html\"><strong>South Africa one of the countries most vulnerable to hacking<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/167405-posting-a-photo-of-your-plane-ticket-on-facebook-is-a-dumb-idea.html\"><strong>Posting a photo of your plane ticket on Facebook is a dumb idea<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/167479-hackers-go-after-mark-zuckerberg.html\"><strong>Hackers go after Mark Zuckerberg<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/166614-watch-out-for-this-new-fnb-online-banking-scam.html\"><strong>Watch out for this new FNB online banking scam<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attackers have downloaded and dumped information from BitTorrent&#8217;s forum database after a recent hack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":148801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[36,3536,37571],"class_list":["post-167891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-active","tag-bittorrent","tag-have-i-been-pwned"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167891"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167903,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167891\/revisions\/167903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}