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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146.7.40.49 (CHEK210-18-UDP11783656UDS.MISSOURISTATE.EDU)
more from power scene
[quote comment="309488"]
Thats because it isn’t comedy comrade. Now lay down your thesaurus …. [/quote]
Three possibilities.
A) You’re too stupid to correctly use the term ‘thesaurus’
B) You’re particularly intimidated by a highschool level vocubulary
C) Maintaining your own personal status quo, you tried to be clever, and failed miserably
[quote comment="309488"]
and take a trip with me to an anti-war rally in San Francisco, February 16, 2003.[/quote]
Bonus! You’re a conspiracy-theorist crackpot. Remind me again how Hillary Clinton is in league with the Jew-hating Iranians? I bet the Reptilians are involved, too, somehow. Am I right, Tinfoil?
[quote comment="309488"]
I admit I do not have the intellectual capacity to produce this magnitude of propaganda[/quote]
The fact that you lack the intellectual capacity to realize you aren’t capable of producing *any* magnitude of *effective* propaganda is a testament to your mental ineptitude in and of itself. You really don’t need to elaborate.
[quote comment="309488"]
P.S. Your response is awaiting moderation. Viva the free, uncensored internet eh comrades![/quote]
Babbling about Torrent Freak censoring messages in your uncensored message on Torrent Freak? God damn, you suck. You suck hard.
I got the spam email from Powerscene and I have no pussytorrent account. I have however been a TL member for 2 years. How then did they get my email address ?
All you wannabe’s stop pretending to be me, for i am Mikisiw and all your torrents are belong to me
[quote comment="309461"]Idiotic peer2peer users. This shit just makes me laugh like a motherfucker.[/quote]
Yeah… because there’s totally not infighting between members of the scene.
/sacasm
You Punks get what you dserve stop priating stuff youall belong in jial
http://bigcountryhomepage.com/phpBB2/index.php
after a crash a few months ago the pussytorrents database was rebuilt with entries from TL, thats why all older members basically have a pussytorrents account too
i just wanna point out that writing under false nicks like steve20. w00t etc is extremely low and pathetic
lol, jackass.
TL tracker = Good
TL Site = Still can’t axx
WTF?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=3×7pUhf__Pg
[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]
You dolt.
I couldn’t give a rat’s ass what’s written in the FAQ. I PMed the mod who invited me (in IRC) & told him that I was no longer interested. My account was then INSTANTLY closed.
No waiting for closure through inactivity.
I thought it was a physical impossibilty, but it seems you actually DO know less than nothing.
HTH
HAND
kthxbai
TL = Total Loser
i suck goats udders
guten abend ich bin w00t.
Donaten alles your monies und I can go on holiday looking for ladyboyen fur mein arsch
Couldn’t happen to a nicer service!
http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com
pathetic lmao
168 comments 38 diggs :/
@TorrentLeach fix your iptables conntrack settings
Update: TorrentLeech moved to a new location and the site is back up.
Does that mean a different URL?
Because i still get “page cannot be displayed” message?
Thanks.
hmmmmmm…..what shall happen next O:-)
MY name is spooky lady i suck giant cock i like to lick clits and suck and yeast infections i am ircop i wil glline all of you people in p2p i am a stupid fuck that likes to lick balls
Give me a name and i kill him/the gay fucks
who’s name you need Sniper? ;-)
it was spookylady that attacked TL ask around in p2pnetwork youll find him/her he has made threats to TL
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