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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DdOS again…
lol
[quote comment="312107"]DdOS again…[quote comment="312109"]lol[/quote]
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[quote comment="312104"]tl is having 502 bad gateway errors now and is loading very slow.[/quote]
lo
Hope this helps
http://www.riorey.com/?_kk=ddos%20attack&_kt=8d563b5c-91b3-4d52-9c70-a8d81a752518&gclid=CPGQ0ImDkJICFQcKGgod3kpo_A
http://www.riorey.com/advantage.php
Jesus christ.
Came here first and yes you just confirmed it.
Is there another domain TL have to announce news when the main domain is down?
And whats the IRC channel?
TorrentLeech is starting to loose pace on other trackers. I can’t help thinking it is the beginning of the end. This year they will most likely be busted and the admins put up in court.
It’s common knowledge that TorrentLeech is a pay to leech scum site making thousands of £££’s every month. I mean what n00b really believes they need over 6000 euros/per month to keep it running?
I used to go to TorrentLeech for most files I needed but now I prefer to go to smaller more secure sites. Their pre time is also getting worse.
They have built up too many enemies over the year’s they have been running. Mark my words it’s just a matter of time before they are taken down for good.
I’m spartacus
TL rocks!!! TL or Bust… Bitches!!!
[quote comment="311602"]Heh TL wont confirm this .. after all, “We need our escape goat”
Hopefully people will actually step back and look for the facts instead of reading something and assuming its true..[/quote]
Yah, I found this wierd aswell, as I have an TL account since forever and got the mail aswell. I do NOT however have an account at pussytorrents. So how come the mail got to me?
Odd…
I have an account at both and didn’t get any mail - weird
couldntsaiditbetter, you obviously don’t know wtf you’re talking about…bake a cake or something..pwned 133tsauce
WTF are you doing Mikifakisaki, come home right now. You need a right good old spanking!!! BAD BOI !!
FUCKING SCUM DEMOND YOU DISGUSTING FUCKING ANIMAL.
/SPIT
YOUL GET DDOSD AGAIN DONT YOU WORRY LOSE THE GOD COMPLEX.
Does somebody want a demonoid account, i will give you a invatation code, if you give me one of torrentleech.
1year ago i was a normal member there, had a nice ratio and never posteded any (stupid) comments.
Is there somebody who want to give me a invatation code of torrentleecht?????
well I have just had a warning off a n00b moderator at TL.
He is talking bollocks and won’t answer the polite PM I sent him
Typical torrentleech - if you query things too much you’re likely to get banned. What a bunch of tools.
Alot of smaller sites beat them on times too.
I am from PowerScene. We have had nothing to do with attacks to the site. As we are getting attacked at the moment our selves. We do know who it is with our site and I am starting to wonder if this is just a stupid kiddy who doesn’t have good access so he’s trying to be cool. If any TL siteop/admin would like more data on our attack logs, feel free to message me on irc.powerscene.org.
I’ll be glad to co-operate with you fully.
Powerscene has never enghaged in any DOS attacks or hacking of anyone’s database. There is no need for such juvenile activities. We have made no mass mailings to anyone for any reason. Up until this articlwe was written our membership was closed. Only in the past week did we open up membership to invitations and 5 days of open registration.
Powerscene itself has been trying to recover from a catastrophic server event weeks before this purported attack by us. We have been too busy getting the site back to full operational functionality to be running around scalping other site users.
We at powerscene had no involvement in any of this, and if it were to come to lite any staff or user were involved they would be ejected from our site with extreme prejudice.
We realize that virtually every person has muiltiple accounts with many trackers. We encourage the spirit of the torrent community. We want to build our site on its own merits, and not over the blood of others. We have no need or desire to engage in any behavior such as this.
I encourage the author of this article to press on with this story and be sure to vindicate powerscene from any involvement. We want the perpetrators caught as well, to prove we had no involvement with such tactics.
I can only hope this is resolved soon. This is not the reputation we want to have with the community.
Hmmmm… looks like something similar may be happening again at TL.
I haven’t been back to powerscene since Mikisiw proved himself to be a right twat. Is he still there?
if you’re reading this and have a spare invite to TL, i’d be grateful if you could send me one to bethere@bethere.co.uk
thanks :D
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