French Hadopi "3 Strikes" Anti-Piracy Company Hacked
Found on TorrentFreak on Monday, 16 May 2011
The private company entrusted to carry out file-sharing network monitoring for the French government has been hacked.
Actually, hacked is probably too strong a word, since it appears TMG left the front door open.
"A virtual machine leaked a lot of information like scripts, p2p clients to generate fake peers, local physical addresses in the datacenter and even a password that could lead to a major global TMG security breach," French security researcher Olivier Laurelli, aka Bluetouff, just informed TorrentFreak.
I guess you could say that TMG shared information illegally with a 3rd party who was not authorized to see the data. That's pretty much how the industry describes filesharing. Will TMG receive a warning letter or get even disconnected from the Internet now?