The BitTorrent team has announced that its community forums have been hacked. The forum database has been compromised by hackers who were able to get their hands on its users’ passwords. Security researcher Troy Hunt somehow got access to the stolen database and which he has already been uploaded to his Data breach Notification Site: Have I Been Pwned, which includes 34,000 BitTorrent Forum users’ email addresses, usernames, IP addresses, and salted SHA1 hashed passwords. BitTorrent is the most visited torrent client around the world with more than 150 million monthly active users.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2016/06/utorrent-hacked.html