Hacker takes down popular French piracy provider YggTorrent
TL;DR
YggTorrent, a major French piracy site with 6.6 million users, is permanently shutting down after a hacker breached a server and stole data. The hacker, Grolum, claims the breach was due to the site's greed and has destroyed the servers.
Source: PCMag
A popular provider of pirated content for French users, YggTorrent, is shutting down after a hacker breached one of the platform’s servers and stole its data. YggTorrent has been around since 2017, offering an estimated 6.6 million users a way to search for and download peer-to-peer torrents of various pirated media. The site now says it’s “permanently closed” following the breach, which occurred on Tuesday and involved a hacker compromising a “secondary pre-production server, separate from the main system.” The hacker, who goes by “Grolum,” created their own site, which says they breached YggTorrent over its alleged greed. “Years of lies. An empire built on extortion. It's over. The servers have been emptied, then destroyed,” Grolum wrote in French. Full Story