MediaDefender Emails Leaked

Posted on September 16, 2007
Filed Under Data Theft & Security Breaches, Security News |

“The company MediaDefender works with the RIAA and MPAA against piracy, setting up fake torrents and trackers and disrupting p2p traffic. Previously, the TorrentFreak site accused them of setting up a fake internet video download site designed to catch and bust users. MediaDefender denied the entrapment charges. Now 700MB of MediaDefender’s internal emails from the last 6 months have been leaked onto BitTorrent trackers. The emails detail their entire plan, including how they intended to distance themselves from the fake company they set up and future strategies. Other pieces of company information were included in the emails such as logins and passwords, wage negotiations, and numerous other aspects of their internal business.” - zonk @ slashdot

The “leak” contains more than 6,600 internal emails along with file attachments likely to impact MediaDefender credibility and potentially support allegations of entrapment.  Allegedly an employee at MediaDefender was forwarding copies of his internal mail to a Google Gmail account which was subsequently hacked and ironically exposed on P2P Torrents.

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