The Pirate Bay is suffering a massive worldwide outage for the last few hours after a major leak with Game of Thrones (GoT) Season 6 Episode 5 hit the torrent website, ahead of its scheduled TV telecast on Sunday, 22 May.

Several torrent fans just got lucky with an early access to the leaked GoT episode via The Pirate Bay (TPB) and Kickass torrents on Saturday (21 May) and early next day.

The TPB fans are in for some major disappointment as the popular torrent site has been down for the last 19 hours and 35 minutes, according to the recent outage report posted on Currently Down.

Another website status checker 'Is It Down Right Now' is also reporting that the TPB is down for everyone as there is no response from the server.

Visitors to the site are currently encountering the 522 error which invariably throws up the "Connection timed out" message while several reports on the internet suggest that the outage has been persistent for several hours since Monday morning.

It is ascertained that the backup Tor website is also down this time for some unknown reason, despite May being a relatively good month for TPB except for a few half-hour mini outages.

Such a massive outage could be a major hitch for all torrent-loving pirates who are hunting for early access to popular leaks like Game of Thrones.

It is a massive blow to the pirate community as the website status page shows that the https version of The Pirate Bay and Tor are officially down along with the latest torrents, new users and comments page.

Techworm has contacted the TPB admin for an update on the situation while some users have reported that ThePirateBay.se is currently redirecting them to ThePirateBay.org.