Some Pirate Bay users have reported receiving dodgy spam emails claiming to come as official mail from the website. The spam is an obvious fraud but it will be a worry to the chaps at the Pirate Bay because it highlights that the website has a security flaw and its database has been compromised. Pirate Bay responded to say it hadn’t sent any emails out to its users but it hasn’t offered a response as to how its database was breached. Last year a group of Argentinean hackers got into The Pirate Bay’s website admininistration panel but only to highlight system vulnerabilities.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2011/03/pirate-bays-database-gets-hacked.html