TorrentLeech is Down Due to DoS Attack
Written by Ernesto on March 11, 2008With over 150,000 users, TorrentLeech is without doubt one of the most popular private BitTorrent communities. Sadly, during the last few weeks the site suffered annoying setbacks in the form of hacking attempts, and most recently, a denial-of-service attack which has rendered the site unusable.
Getting access to private site TorrentLeech is difficult enough if you don’t have membership or don’t know a someone with invitations. Over the last few days, those difficulties in accessing the site have been extended to members too.
The current period of intermittent, but almost complete downtime has been going on for almost two days and is caused by a DoS attack, according to a message posted a few hours ago in the site’s news section.
“TorrentLeech is very slow and unresponsive during the last 30h, due to DoS attack to our webservers. Thank you for your patience, while we are trying to block this attack.”
At this point the source of the attacks is unclear, but they seem to be persistent and serious enough to completely degrade the usability of the site.
Things haven’t been going smoothly for the site recently. According to unconfirmed reports, the site was also the target of hacking attempts over the past few weeks.
Last week several TorrentLeech users received an email from a new tracker called ‘PowerScene’, asking them to join. Some users speculated that TorrentLeech may have been hacked and some email addresses leaked, or that someone from the inside leaked user information. However, none of these claims turned out to be true, as one of the admins said that TorrentLeech wasn’t hacked, but rather their sister site, PussyTorrents.
The admin wrote: “PowerScene, we believe, hacked our sister site PussyTorrents and obtained email addresses from the database there, this problem is being sorted out as we speak and admin/sysops are already working on upgrading security on both sites so no need for concern.”
To deal with the security vulnerabilities, members of the site were already prompted to update their passwords to more secure ones weeks ago, and since a few days ago they have also had to use a captcha to login.
TorrentLeech is coming back slowly, and both the tracker and the IRC channel seem to work fine. This isn’t the first time they have had to deal with a DoS attack, so they probably know how to deal with it quite effectively now.
Update: TorrentLeech moved to a new location and the site is back up.
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@37
I know it isn’t obligatory to donate but when it comes to the “pay to leech” type of shit that only the shittiest of torrent sites use, they really just scam people.
[quote comment="309419"][quote comment="309268"]Maybe it’s just a anti-piracy company takeing advantage of the current situation, thus choosing a tactical attack vector/moment.[/quote]
[quote comment="309273"]yeah, either the anti-piracy gangsters or some pissed of “hax0r” Neo-Wannabe whos throwing a tantrum for being banned. ^_^[/quote]
P.S
Bravo comrades! Classic Ahmadinejad. To unify the masses and maintain the illusion of control and stability blame the Americans, or in our case the anti piracy zionist nazis.
Once enough comrades are converted to the new party doctrine, it becomes truth, like the scientific ‘consensus’ on global warming. Just remember Mahmoud’s simple formula: Numbers > Facts.
The all knowing Iranian president for life sends these fruit baskets and bath salts as a token of appreciation for your commitment to spreading the current truth.
Hillary akbar!
Your comrade,
Putin 08[/quote]
Hell i was just speculating but cheers for the giggle lol ..
p.s Your mom is a Zionist Nazi American Commie Transexual Monkey
Attack is neutralized and site is back in normal,fully functional :)
[quote comment="309424"]@37
I know it isn’t obligatory to donate but when it comes to the “pay to leech” type of shit that only the shittiest of torrent sites use, they really just scam people.[/quote]
Stalin forbid! What times are these when comrades have to pay for stolen goods?
Your comrade,
Putin 08
I betcha it was those Anonfags at 711chan.org/i/
They just post anonymous because they don’t want anyone to know the are also members of Free.The.Scene.
I completely agree to whoever said they had this coming.
I personally don’t see anything special in TL at all. Yes, they are money whores.. that’s obvious, but they also lack community and decent mods. Don’t get me wrong, everyone is entitled to choose their trackers, I just enjoy the smaller ones.
Besides, I’m going to predict that TL will be down within a year.
Why would they care about some other torrent site? Most likely they are from one of the sites mentioned in the article.
Idiotic peer2peer users. This shit just makes me laugh like a motherfucker.
@55 you’re gonna predict TL will be down within a year?? what are you?? Mystic Meg or something?? More like Septic Peg!!
I’m a loyal TL poweruser, I have a shitty upload speed, never donated, and just do my bit and seed my shit back to a minimum of 1.5. Never had a problem with any staff/mods etc, all friendly and helpful enough, also have a good laugh with other members in the forums/comments. You mugs are all jealous as ya can’t get in or have been banned. Stick to your 2-bob thousand member sites, and I’ll stick to my 2mb+ download speeds @ TL………ya stoopid Gimps!
[quote comment="torrentleech.org1"]2008-03-11 - SITE BACK TO NORMAL
Attack is neutralized and site is back in normal,fully functional :) Have fun
[/quote]
hellspawn= wannabe 1337 Tool!
[quote comment="309419"]
Bravo comrades! Classic Ahmadinejad …. zionist nazis …. Iranian president ….
Hillary akbar!
Your comrade,
Putin 08[/quote]
You’re mixing up your ethnopolitical caricatures to a point that defies comedy, dear.
Well… At least, *intentional* comedy.
I’d ask you to try again, but as you are about as clever as a pile of bird droppings, and half as erudite, your second attempt would inevitably be yet another shitstain on the face of satirical commentary.
TL is back up and yeah it was powerscene that ddosed them. TL rejects and wanna be’s lmao tis funny really when you think about it. i had a scout round powerscene couple of weeks ago they had about 500 torrents with hardly any seeds and about 5 uploaders and that was on a good day. the tl channel will tell you if you ask who is responsible ive seen em say 100s times today so annon is talking garbage about TL admin saying it wasnt powerscene. jelousy is a terrible thing
its not powerscene…ask the tl admins
ownd
I voluntarily handed in my membership of TL when I discovered that they merely wanted my cash money.
Goodbye & good riddance to all Pay-To-Leechers…
quote ” voluntarily handed in my membership of TL when I discovered that they merely wanted my cash money.” << lmao yeah ya did. another powerscene idiot
LOL @ posting with w00t’s nick you fewl. come and ask the admins =)
[quote comment="309480"]quote ” voluntarily handed in my membership of TL when I discovered that they merely wanted my cash money.” << lmao yeah ya did. another powerscene idiot[/quote]
Never heard of, let alone joined them, ya fuckheaded tool…
HTH
HAND
kthxbai
[quote comment="309466"][quote comment="309419"]
Bravo comrades! Classic Ahmadinejad …. zionist nazis …. Iranian president ….
Hillary akbar!
Your comrade,
Putin 08[/quote]
You’re mixing up your ethnopolitical caricatures to a point that defies comedy, dear.
Well… At least, *intentional* comedy.
I’d ask you to try again, but as you are about as clever as a pile of bird droppings, and half as erudite, your second attempt would inevitably be yet another shitstain on the face of satirical commentary.[/quote]
Thats because it isn’t comedy comrade. Now lay down your thesaurus and take a trip with me to an anti-war rally in San Francisco, February 16, 2003.
Behold YOUR democrat socialist brethren (I admit I do not have the intellectual capacity to produce this magnitude of propaganda):
http://www.zombietime.com/hall_of_shame/Zionist_Pigs_Jew_devil.jpg
(San Fransisco)
http://www.zombietime.com/stop_the_us_israeli_war_8_12_2006/IMG_7966.JPG
(Stop the U.S.-Israeli War” rally on August 12, 2006)
In the future consider google before posting (you don’t want to look like a less than equal in front of party elites, unless you enjoy Siberia).
P.S. Your response is awaiting moderation. Viva the free, uncensored internet eh comrades!
Your comrade,
Putin 08
For a start you cant hand back your membership tosser so now whos the “fuckhead” ;)
tl is back up, now powerscene is down?? anyone else verify?
wasnt me i swear :P
ddos http://www.flaming-phoenix.com!
“until you’re appointed to staff (which wont be in this lifetime) keep your opinions to yourself. This has already caused me enough problems and i’m telling you i’m ready to hit the ban button on some ppl.”
last i looked - takes members to make an admin.
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