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Quote:Stories of the weird: What’s the worst thing that a private tracker administrator could do? Steal donations? No. Hack the site? Maybe. Worse yet, an admin could blatantly promote his new startup tracker (and diss the current one), naturally! Well, that’s what happened to Fuall - a (now ex) administrator on SuperTorrents. We’re guessing he saw the writing on the wall, and decided to use his privileges at ST to send a mass PM to all members - in order to promote his brand-new tracker, all the while asking ST members to delete their accounts. It’s somewhat of a comical tale - it originally appeared as a hack, when in fact it was a just a disgruntled admin who had one foot out the door anyways. PreToMe & Funfile, eat your hearts out.

If you’re a member of SuperTorrents, you may have noticed a PM in your inbox from Fuall.
It said,

Buenos Dias, pendejos fellow ST members, I would like to extend an invitation to each of you to our new torrent site http://www.torrentmax.org. The new look and great new features will prove to be delightful during your daily visits & the staff consists of the best and brightest of both ST & STM! Any ST members who post an image using photobucket or imagehack of their deleted ST account, will receive VIP status, shoutbox access, and 50GB upload credit! (use http://www.supertorrents.org/delacct.php to take the screenshot) Post screen caps here: http://www.torrentmax.org/forums.php…



I hope to see you all at TM!

PS join our irc server for chat and idle bonus at /server venenum.eu.torrentmax.org



THIS IS NO JOKE ITS FOR REAL ALL ST STAFF ARE MOVING AND SO ARE ALL UPLOADERS AND WE GARANTEE TO GIVE YOU GUYS A QUALITY TORRENT SITE DEDICATED TO YOU THE USER.



NOTICE - This is a mass pm, it has been sent to the following classes: n00b, users, puser, uuser, xuser, uluser, auser, euser, suser

(We checked the forum link at TorrentMax.org, and the thread has now been closed).

The next PM came from SuperTorrents - who warns,

Ignore the previous message sent by “fuall.” The account was hijacked and the site linked is not affiliated with ST/STM staff in any way.

…Followed by:

fuall has been stripped of his Administrator title and banned as a result of the hostile takeover attempt, if you still see his PM’s delete them. If you do not see them, we’ve already taken care of it. Everything is back to normal.

Sorry about all of the PM spam.

This same fuall (the TorrentMax sysop) also promoted his site at FST in the ‘BitTorrent Sites Open for Signup’ page:

Kids, this is NOT how you leave a tracker. We quote a ‘community rep’ from FreeTheScene:

Yeah Fuall is a little power hungry. The account wasn’t hacked… it was him… This is actually the second fall out of ST in the last year and a half. We actually had to remove Fuall from F.T.S cause we wouldn’t let him on staff and he got really pissy about it.

It’s been suggested to be very careful with your chosen username/password on the new site at TorrentMax.

SAUCE: http://filesharefreak.com/2009/03/01/adm...c-and-fts/

lulz this is great. Did he manage to get everyone's PW before he left?

If he knew what tables to download, he very well may have the passwords. But, they would be encrypted, so he'd have to crack the hashes. Torrent sites have really good security, and usually you can only grab tables from their forum, and hope people use the same passes for both.

Ah that's good to know.
Definitely good to have multiple PWs.

Admin disappointments. hahaha You never suspect an admin of failing so hard. (Talking about the article, not you 2 )