RUTracker, Russia’s largest BitTorrent tracker, has been dealing with a hacker attack over the past few hours.

According to Cnews the attack began this morning Moscow time.

For a while the domain linked to a page with an article about Sergei Averintsev, but this seems to be resolved.

The hackers reportedly gained control over RUTracker’s domain name and updated the Whois information.

RUTracker acknowledged the hack and posted the following message:

“For technical reasons associated with the domain registrar account hack, rutracker.org may be temporarily unavailable.”

Interestingly enough, the Rutracker.net domain currently links to a banner which suggests that the domain was taken over by the U.S. authorities. We assume that this is the work of hackers as well.