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The email database of controversial UK anti-piracy firm ACS:Law was leaked and made available via The Pirate Bay over the weekend.
Several versions of the law firm's emails were available for download, according to listings on The Pirate Bay, including one file marked as having been scrubbed of viruses and another sorted for easy reading.
ACS:Law was under investigation by the UK Solicitor's Regulatory Authority for its practice of mass mailing alleged file-sharers settlement offers in order to avoid litigation.
According to torrent news website Torrent Freak, 30 percent of the 11,367 letter recipients over two years had chosen to settle for between £350 and £700 ($577 to $1,154) per allegation, which netted ACS:Law over £600,000 ($989,000).
The leaked ACS:Law emails purported to include the revenue split between rights holders, software companies that monitor file-sharing and ACS:Law, as well as the success rate of the letter campaigns.
The leak allegedly occurred after ACS:Law posted a back-up of the company's email database on its website, which it was attempting to restore following a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.
At the time of writing, the website was offline again.
The law firm's website was forced offline last week in attacks launched by 4Chan message board pranksters under their "Operation: Payback" campaign.
The campaign had initially targeted the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), IFPI and an Indian software firm that claimed it used DDoS attacks against The Pirate Bay.
ACS:Law's Andrew Crossley reportedly told The Register on Wednesday - prior to the email leak - "big whoop" about the attack, adding that his site was "only down for a few hours".
However, by Friday "Anonymous" leaders of "Payback is a Bitch" were taunting Crossley with his own emails.
Source: ITNews
The email database of controversial UK anti-piracy firm ACS:Law was leaked and made available via The Pirate Bay over the weekend.
Several versions of the law firm's emails were available for download, according to listings on The Pirate Bay, including one file marked as having been scrubbed of viruses and another sorted for easy reading.
ACS:Law was under investigation by the UK Solicitor's Regulatory Authority for its practice of mass mailing alleged file-sharers settlement offers in order to avoid litigation.
According to torrent news website Torrent Freak, 30 percent of the 11,367 letter recipients over two years had chosen to settle for between £350 and £700 ($577 to $1,154) per allegation, which netted ACS:Law over £600,000 ($989,000).
The leaked ACS:Law emails purported to include the revenue split between rights holders, software companies that monitor file-sharing and ACS:Law, as well as the success rate of the letter campaigns.
The leak allegedly occurred after ACS:Law posted a back-up of the company's email database on its website, which it was attempting to restore following a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.
At the time of writing, the website was offline again.
The law firm's website was forced offline last week in attacks launched by 4Chan message board pranksters under their "Operation: Payback" campaign.
The campaign had initially targeted the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), IFPI and an Indian software firm that claimed it used DDoS attacks against The Pirate Bay.
ACS:Law's Andrew Crossley reportedly told The Register on Wednesday - prior to the email leak - "big whoop" about the attack, adding that his site was "only down for a few hours".
However, by Friday "Anonymous" leaders of "Payback is a Bitch" were taunting Crossley with his own emails.
Source: ITNews