UPDATE: Hadopi considers temporarily suspending ites with Trident Media Guard

Following a leak at Hadopi-investigator Trident Media Guard last weekend, Eric Walter, Hadopi’s secretary general, announced to take the matter very seriously and even posted a Twitter message indicating to consider temporarily suspend the ties with TMG. For the time being, Hadopi will continue working the cases with the data they still had on file.

 Source: Numerama

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The firm that, on behalf of French rights holders, monitors for possible infringements of the Hadopi law, has been hacked last weekend. Much sensitive information has been leaked, that may compromise effective enforcement of the “three-strikes” law.

The firm, Trident Media Guard (TMG), keeps an eye on file sharing portals to track down infringers. The information that this yields, is passed to the Hadopi authority and is used to send warning letters.

This weekend, hackers have obtained valuable information, security expert Olivier Laurelli said to Torrentfreak. “A virtual machine leaked a lot of information like scripts, p2p clients to generate fake peers, local physical addresses in the datacenter and even a password that could lead to a major global TMG security breach.” According to Laurelli, the leak indicates a capital weakness with TMG. The breach could have an impact on enforcement as soon as the next few days.