US EditionOne of the Largest Illegal French Download Sites, Yggtorrent, Permanently Closed After Hacking
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The site's servers were emptied and then destroyed on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday, March 4. A hacker opposes a recently introduced paid feature.
A pirate named "Gr0lum" claimed the attack to contest the setting up of a pay model on this site that allowed to download films or series outside the legal market.
This hacker is opposed to a recently introduced pay feature by the site, which it describes as a racket. Launched in 2017, YggTorrent would have 6.6 million users.
Ygg Torrent has 6.6 million users who have access, through it, to more than one million files. The site had become paid, which the hacker in question objected to, which took part.
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On the night of Tuesday to Wednesday, YggTorrent's servers were emptied and then destroyed by a hacker. Gr0lum denounces a paid feature set up by the site.
On the night of 3 to 4 March 2026, the site of French-speaking torrents YggTorrent drew the curtain. This address, one of the most frequented in France for the illegal download, does not post more than a message of definitive closure, after a large-scale YggTorrent hacking whose servers were "lost" and then destroyed. For the approximately 6.6 million accounts recorded, it is the shock: the platform born in 2017 on the ashes of T411 disappears i…
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