Hounddawgs

Hounddawgs operates as a Danish torrent tracker, providing a platform for users to share and locate torrent files for various digital content. The service is headquartered in Denmark and primarily serves a user base that accesses the tracker through its web interface. It utilizes the Gazelle script, a PHP‑based torrent tracker software, to manage its indexing and peer‑to‑peer coordination functions. The tracker’s core offering revolves around facilitating peer‑to‑peer file distribution without hosting the files themselves.

In December 2017, the tracker suffered a security breach in which a hacker claiming affiliation with Anonymous promoted all registered users to staff before taking the site offline. The operators initially downplayed the incident, describing it as minor interference from a rival tracker. Subsequent investigation revealed a leak of usernames, email addresses, and IP addresses, which was followed by the release of over 20 GB of alleged full database and site code. The exposure of personal data led to reports of compromised external accounts among the tracker’s users. The operators later acknowledged unresolved security flaws, apologized for delayed precautions, and warned that user data logged via the Gazelle script could be identified by anti‑piracy groups. A successor tracker recommended by the operators was subsequently compromised and shut down, while no explicit details about the organisation’s ownership, parent company, or subsidiary relationships are provided in the source material.