Huge WiHD database left unprotected online
A French private torrent community called World in HD (WiHD) inadvertently exposed sensitive user data to the wider internet.
Research from Cybernews discovered an unprotected database using Elasticsearch. The database, the researchers said, contained user emails, IP addresses, service information, usernames, and hashed passwords, for both forum users and administrators.
Almost 100,000 people have had their data exposed this way. Torrents are a way to share big files over the internet, and while they’re not illegal by design, a lot of people use them to share pirated content, such as movies and series, music, games, cracked software, and more.
