Millions of users of the Pirate Bay file-sharing site may be unaware that along with their digital content downloads they are receiving malware capable of purloining their personal banking information, according to DNA India.

Despite a number of lawsuits and prosecutions for assisting in copyright infringement, the P2P site continues to offer downloads of music, movies, TV shows and videogames.

But users logging into the torrent site on Saturday with Chrome and Mozilla web browsers received malware warnings because Google's Safe Browsing is flagging the site. The warning advised users that the site was a web forgery and might trick them into revealing personal and financial information.

This type of warning pops up when an ad network is compromised and malicious ads are sent, so one of Pirate Bay's third-party pages is suspected of serving up malware, according to VentureBeat.

As of Monday, Pirate Bay is operating as usual.

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