HDBits: News

[Len]

HDBits has this msg on the landing page:

TehConnection - 2017-09-22

Recently we've been made aware of new developments with regards to another private tracker called tehconnection.eu. After a period of downtime, it now turns out that some of their servers have been seized. This in itself is of course very concerning and very disheartening, but matters are only being made worse by the cryptic message now displayed on their front page. Contrary to their wishes, we highly recommend everyone who's also a user of TehC, to immediately pause/stop their torrents there. There's zero benefit and potentially some danger in keeping the torrents active. They can just be unpaused if and when the situation is deemed safe again.

The message also makes a vague reference to a "prominent private movie tracker" having threatened their sysadmin. All we can say on this reference is that it's deemed unhelpful and counter-productive and that it wasn't anyone from HDBits. It pains us that this rather "strange" message has more or less forced us to come out and state the obvious.

As always in such cases, we need to remind you that sharing passwords across sites is a bad idea! We would also recommend enabling 2-step verification via the security tab in your profile! Doing so will earn you a nice 5BP per hour, every hour, for as long as 2FA is enabled.

Having said that, we of course wish TehConnection all the best of luck in dealing with this terrible situation they find themselves in.

edit: we have received reliable information that the site is likely to be presumed compromised and lost. We urge everyone to not donate to the bitcoin address on their page until more clarification is provided by the person in charge of the infrastructure. Unfortunately a lot of things are still unclear so we can't make any definitive assessment of the situation but we strongly advise you to err on the side of caution!

I've been a member of TC since almost the start and I can tell you that things have been a bit of mess over there for awhile. Nothing would surprise me when it comes to TC these days.