AgusiQ-Torrents.pl data breach: 90K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2019-12-04
In September 2019, Polish torrent site AgusiQ-Torrents.pl suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 90k member records including email and IP addresses, usernames and passwords stored as MD5 hashes. Exposed data: email addresses, ip addresses, passwords, usernames. The breach dates from Sep 24, 2019; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Dec 4, 2019.
What to do
- If you had a AgusiQ-Torrents.pl account, change its password and the password of any other account that reused it.
- Turn on multi-factor authentication wherever it is offered.
- Check whether your addresses are in this breach at https://haveibeenpwned.com.
- Expect targeted phishing that quotes the leaked details; verify any unexpected contact out of band.
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