Phantom Downloads
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Hello… Today I noticed that my account has supposedly downloaded seven torrents. I haven't been using the site for downloads or uploads for over a week because I just moved and I haven't sorted out a VPN and such... My ratio is still pretty healthy but if this keeps happening I don't want to see it go way down and not have a way to balance it out. Plus, I'm kind of worried that this might lead to some other problems, like a hacked account or something. Is anyone else having this problem, and does anyone have advice on what to do? Thanks in advance for your help! Cheers!
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If you think your account has been compromised, you can reset your passkey located on your profile settings page. This assigns you a new unique tracker number that reports on your UL/DL stats. Your old passkey is immediately terminated when you do this. If you are seeding or leeching anything at the same time, you'll have to redownload the .torrent file to continue to do so.
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I did as you suggested with the passkey. Has anyone ever complained about this happening? It seems odd to me. Anyway- thank you so much for the quick response! Cheers!
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It is not necessary the account which is compromised. It might just have been the passkey. There are many ways a passkey can leak, e.g. through the torrent sharing function of BitComet, through uploading a .torrent file from here to another site, through file sharing software like eMule, Ares or Limewire, etc … (that is why we and other private tracker prohibit the sharing of .torrent files on other tracker, always make a new for the other tracker)
If you think the account is compromised, you should not only reset the passkey, but use another e-mail and change the password, too.
There are only few complains the last year, it was used to be more frequents previously.
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thanks for the advice- I changed the email and password as well. Cheers!