On Saturday 8th April 2006 the myBittorrent.com website was hacked.

If you didn’t know what torrent is, check out the explanation below from Wikipedia.

BitTorrent is both the name of a peer-to-peer (P2P) file distribution client application and also the name of the file sharing protocol itself, both of which were created by programmer Bram Cohen. BitTorrent is designed to widely distribute large amounts of data without incurring the corresponding consumption in costly server and bandwidth resources. According to CacheLogic BitTorrent is responsible for 35% of all traffic on the internet.

The original BitTorrent application was written in Python and its source code has been released under the BitTorrent Open Source License (a modified version of the Jabber Open Source License), as of version 4.0. Sources say the upcoming release will be modified and coded in C++, in order to ensure further compatibility, as well as a bittorrent version for macs. The name “BitTorrent” refers to the distribution protocol, the original client application, and the .torrent file type.