Hackers who seized more than 6,000 internal company e-mails from anti-piracy company MediaDefender, have made good on their promise to release additional material from the company. Today's trove includes source code for dozens of tools MediaDefender uses (or, perhaps, used to use) to thwart the trading of copyrighted content on file-sharing networks. These include tools like BTSeedInflator and BTDecoyClient that target the BitTorrent network.
The code is a boon to admins on the targeted file-sharing networks since it exposes MediaDefender's methods for seeding the networks with decoy files and, therefore, will help the admins combat those strategies.
Ernesto at TorrentFreak was, once again, the first to hear about the new leak of MediaDefender data. Ernesto has been on top of the MediaDefender story for months, having first discovered in July that MediaDefender was secretly operating a download site to catch users trading in illegal content. After he exposed this information, a hacker or group of hackers who go by the name MediaDefender-Defenders e-mailed him last Saturday telling him that they had seized thousands of internal MediaDefender e-mails and had released them to the BitTorrent network.
A day later, the same group released the content of a database seized from a MediaDefender company server as well as a recording from a conference call that appears to be between a MediaDefender employee and investigators with the New York attorney general's office. The parties speaking on the call discussed a secret project that MediaDefender was working on with the law enforcement investigators to troll file-sharing networks for people trading in child porn.
According to notes the hackers have included with some of their data dumps, they've been inside MediaDefenders computer network -- and possibly its phone system -- for nine months. More data is likely to come.
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