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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keep running your mouths…
all is well again at TL!
they rock!!
w00t TL FTW
pay to leech ftw!!!!!
Yay people can start paying them to download illegally again…
Wait… Does that make sense?
Keep ‘em down. They make too much money from VIP.
i dont care if they ask for money…if people are dumb enough to donate…well thats their own fault…props to TL for taking advantage of idiots
Im happy for the TL admins to take home a profit from the site, im getting an amazing service for free. Afterall they are putting in alot of work. I do think uploaders should get a slice of the cake too.
TORRENTLEECH FTW
TL - Powerscene - Al Qaeda.
All seem to be run by power hungry idiots.
Who cares if W00t takes lots of money and doesn’t share it out with staff or user competitions. Who cares if Powerscene pretend to have lots of members and a right weirdo in charge.
They are a match made in heaven. Oh hang on thats becaue they have ’staff’ in common.
Powerscene suck my dick
[quote comment="309355"]You sure it’s not bitter sceners who don’t like sharing?[/quote]
salut
Torrent Leech:
I hope you guys get taken the fuck down again, your attitude stinks you big headed fuckwits.
We’re Coming For ya
The guys over at PowerScene should get their links straight, the _real_ shareaza isn’t located at shareaza.com anymore. The only legit site is hosted at sourceforge.
shareaza.sourceforge.net
I am Mikisiw. I say no more.
[quote comment="309918"]Torrent Leech:
I hope you guys get taken the fuck down again, your attitude stinks you big headed fuckwits.
We’re Coming For ya[/quote]
not over
No, IM Mikisiw
mikisiw im going to kick your ass and your crappy torrent site
wtf steve20. You were one of the ones telling everyone that we in fact did nothing. As for comments about the owners, it’s true, I’m a nice guy, and ppl hate me for it. Again, anyone relying upon bitter, and sad, souls to decide where they can and can’t go, or join, needs to break free of the sand box bully. Thank you so much for all the publicity. BTW just for the record, I wouldn’t even know where to begin to initiate a ddos, and does anyone really think I care about other torrent sites? Enjoy them, see for yourselves what they’re like, then come to my site and also judge for yourself. I understand an appreciate that a unique site like mine where ppl can feel welcome and make friends is a strange concept. Come see for yourself.
i’m Mikisiw and so is my wife
The more a site is publicly discussed in places like this, the less the less interest I have in it. I had a TL account a year ago or more, and it was just another average site then and I had no particular reason to keep it active. Seems they’ve grown quite a bit, but then I suppose those Demonoid users had to go *somewhere*…
A lot of fighting goes on between sites, and it’s primarily egoism and other puerile shit, but when people’s livelihoods are at stake (make no mistake, TL is someone’s paycheck) it can get real nasty and imo the best policy is just to stay the hell out of it.
Want to know a good site? Ask your friends. Your friends don’t know any good sites? Get some better friends. Relying upon marketing and publicity to determine your community participation and loyalty seems awfully naive to me..
Three little maids from school are we
Pert as a school-girl well can be
Filled to the brim with girlish glee
Three little maids from school
Wait… Thats the Mikado. My bad.
lol that wasnt steve20 you dumbass. yall quit posting here. drama fags!
was not a member of pussytorrents only torrentleech.
> Successfully joined #PowerScene on Tuesday at 9:18am
[9:18am] * Topic is ‘.: Welcome To http://www.PowerScene.Org :: Site: Online Signups: Open Invites: Open :: #Pre - #PSC-Announce - #Trivia - #Help - #Hebrew | 4000+ Torrents! SITE WILL BE GOING INVITE ONLY SOON | For technical assistance join #help’
[9:18am] * Set by Guardian on Sun Mar 02 18:05:48
> Channel Modes: +ntr
> Created on Wednesday, January 9th, 2008 at 9:46pm
[9:18am] hello anon
[9:18am] people need to wake up
[9:18am] where did this site get my email address from
[9:18am] oh lord
[9:19am] I don’t kow
[9:19am] * +sexytkat throws kiss at Reeferman
[9:19am] * +sexytkat throws kiss at Affliction
[9:19am] DeeChief you still around
[9:19am] mzda
[9:19am] yes
[9:24am] so staff where did you get my email addy from
[9:25am] anon, can’t help you there i’m afraid
[9:26am] please stand up
[9:26am] why not
[9:26am] please stand up
[9:26am] <—–temporarily stopped to see if I can save addy in this player
[9:26am] :(
[9:26am] well we have no idea how people are recieving these emails
[9:26am] fooking bullshit and you know it
[9:26am] got it from FBI most wanted list
[9:27am] stop the fooking spam or i start glining from p2p <<< i giggled at that im not a ircop hehe but i am close friends to them
[9:27am] lol
[9:27am] ?
[9:27am] are you a member of tl
[9:27am] it be play’n though ;)
[9:27am] *Laughs* so youve stole they user list
[9:28am] no….
[9:28am] i ain’t saying that but they have been hacked
[9:33am] blinded by the light
[9:35am] email addys r public domain
[9:36am] if uve ever signed up for anything or any site on net
[9:36am] they goto public domain
[9:36am] yep they sure do
[9:36am] so anyone can go an get them
——————— pm ———————-
[9:28am] Hello
—I-n-v-i-s-i-o-n— Nick: Casper
> Address: _@moderator.powerscene «Unknown»
> Name: >
> Services: Registered
> Channels: Ḷ @#help #pre #Trivia #PSC-Announce @#PowerScene
> Server: irc.powerscene.org, PowerScene Torrents
> Idle: 0 Seconds
> SignOn: Tuesday, March 4th, 2008 at 7:33am
> User List Catagory: Not in User Lists
> Channels in common with Casper: #PowerScene
[9:29am] hi
[9:29am] so you got an email
[9:29am] yes
[9:29am] you think we are spamming
[9:29am] yes
[9:29am] you dont like it?
[9:29am] obvisously
[9:29am] want us to stop?
[9:29am] yes
[9:29am] hehe
[9:30am] its not really spam if you think about it
[9:30am] its one email
[9:30am] you respond to it
[9:30am] or you dont
[9:30am] you sign up
[9:30am] or you dont
[9:30am] you like the site
[9:30am] or you dont
[9:30am] your choice
[9:30am] i dont give shit what you do to get users but dont email me
[9:30am] i see
[9:30am] im very sorry then
[9:30am] that fact that ive googled you means i wont be signing up
[9:31am] np
[9:31am] not a good way to start out
[9:31am] yeah
[9:31am] i guess
[9:32am] odd we got your email address
[9:32am] hm
[9:33am] you seem like the person that would keep your email safe
[9:33am] apparently has been comprimised
[9:33am] unlikely
[9:34am] how you think then
[9:34am] i dont know the source of emails
[9:34am] because i dont send them out
[9:34am] im sure you might know
[9:34am] where from
[9:34am] oh dont worry i have my sources :D
[9:34am] lol
[9:35am] yeah i think so too we starting out the wrong way
[9:35am] sending out those emails
[9:36am] at first thought it was good idea
[9:36am] but i see now its just causing trounle
[9:36am] trouble*
[9:37am] mmmh anymore and i’ll take it further im not a kiddie and i can get things done
[9:37am] hm
[9:37am] that a threat
[9:37am] no sweetie its a promise
[9:37am] in way does it affect you seriously
[9:38am] be realistic here
[9:38am] what stress does this cause you
[9:39am] you only come complain because we are a newish site
[9:39am] and you dont like this site
[9:39am] if you would of liked the site
[9:39am] you wouldnt have said nothig
[9:41am] i already apologized dont now what more i can say to you
[9:41am] and we will take your concern into
[9:41am] tell me no more will be sent and i will leave you well alone
[9:42am] no more will be sent no to that person
[9:43am] thank you
[9:43am] :)
[9:43am] * Disconnected
[quote comment="309513"]They dont,thats my point. you can leave your account to go innactive but you cant cancel your membership numbnuts ive just read the faq so it would seem its not me that has a lack of “clue”. Dont ya just love it when someone thinks they put ya down but end up looking like a complete pratt :D[/quote]
Split hairs, Twatty. The point is he rejected your after-skool club, and that’s all that matters. Perhaps while you’re at it, you can walk me through how to send emails and junk.
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