The administrator of YTS, which is currently the second largest by clicking here torrent in the world, provided the site's user data to a law firm tasked with tracking down copyright infringers.
It is known that sites like Pirate bay store IP addresses and other data from their users, such as their emails. Users of course hope that this data is secure. 
So today TorrentFreak published evidence that shows that YTS did not respect the privacy of its users.
YTS Senthal site administrator Vijay Segaran appears to have begun working with major law firm Culpepper, providing email and IP addresses to document lawsuits filed against "pirates" in the United States.
In addition, the information was allegedly used for e-mail threats to alleged YTS users, demanding multi-cash settlements to avoid possible criminal prosecution.
TorrentFreak today featured one such email sent by Culpepper to an alleged YTS user. It lists all the information they have about that particular user, going on to state that the law firm submitted treatment infringementcopyright in a court in Hawaii on behalf of its clients and then that it obtained the information from multiple users from the YTS website administrator.
"These include yours"
Note that although they have user data there is no usable evidence that someone downloaded the torrent to their computer, except perhaps the .torrent file which is not illegal as it only contains metadata, ie data that describes other data.
