Administrators of the uTorrent forums have published a security advisory on their site, alerting users of an intrusion into their forum database that allowed an unknown attacker to steal details about their users, including password hashes.
uTorrent is a BitTorrent client, the most popular one today, which was created by Ludvig Strigeus and then acquired by BitTorren Inc. Just like any software application, the developer team runs a forum on their site where users can make requests, read announcements, or get in touch with the developers or each other.
Two days ago, on June 6, the uTorrent team announced an intrusion into their forum, of which they were made aware by their forum software vendor.
uTorrent runs an IP.Board forum on the cloud-based service provided by Invision Power Services.
The vendor informed them that one of their clients suffered a breach and that th... (read more)