HoundDawgs

What Happened

In December 2017, the Danish torrent tracker known as HoundDawgs suffered a data breach. More than 55GB of data was dumped publicly and whilst there was initially contention as to the severity of the incident, the data did indeed contain more than 45k unique email addresses complete extensive logs of torrenting activity, IP addresses and SHA1 passwords.

Compromised Data

Email addresses
IP addresses
Passwords
Website activity

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Breach Overview

  • Affected Accounts:

    45.7 thousand

  • Breach Occurred:

    December 2017

  • Added to HIBP:

    3 Jan 2018

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