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Solve : Leaked Emails Reveal Profits of Anti-Piracy Cash Scheme? |
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Answer» Friday night the anti-piracy law firm ACS:Law accidentally published its entire email archive online, EFFECTIVELY revealing how the company MANAGED to extract over a million dollars (£636,758.22) from alleged file-sharers since its operation started. On average, 30% of the victims who were targeted paid up, and this money was divided between the law firm, the copyright holder and the MONITORING company. How do you accidentally publish something online? You employ an admin who, while responding to a 4Chan DDOS attack, does it in a way that exposes lots of confidential information, including a large email archive. Incidentally, the way the information was obtained does not automatically make it inadmissible in a UK court. According to what I read, in the process of countering the DOS, the default home page was briefly moved. This exposed a listing of the root directory, which happened to contain a backup image, including 350 MB of emails, which was rapidly grabbed by the DOSers and ENDED up as a torrent on the Pirate Bay. “Their site came back online [after the DDoS attack] – and on their frontpage was accidentally a backup file of the whole website (default directory listing, their site was empty), including emails and passwords,” a leader of the attacking group said. |
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