French pirates adrift as major torrent site nuked by hacker who accuses it of hoarding user credit cards and DDoSing rivals: '6.6 million users. Years of lies. An empire built on extortion'
The major French private torrent tracker YggTorrent has been reportedly destroyed by a hacker named Gr0lum, who accused the site's owners of various illicit activities including DDoS attacks and hoarding user credit card information. Despite YggTorrent's claims of disinformation, the hacker's actions have led to the site's apparent demise, though its torrents have been dispersed to other trackers.
- Entities
- Company: YggTorrent
- Topic: Piracy
- Game: Quake 2
- Topic: Cybersecurity
- Game: Assassin's Creed III
- Topic: File Sharing
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