Seedpeer Data Breach

What happened

In July 2015, the torrent site Seedpeer was hacked and 282k member records were exposed. The data included usernames, email addresses and passwords stored as weak MD5 hashes.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

• Change your Seedpeer password immediately, and update it anywhere you reused the same password.
• Enable two-factor authentication on the affected account and on your critical services (email, banking).
• Watch for targeted phishing emails referencing Seedpeer — attackers weaponise breach data quickly.
• Check whether your email address appears in this breach on haveibeenpwned.com.