I noticed some strange poop happening with bittorent a while ago, the menus of their bittorrent software were abnormally slow, the slowest menus I have probably ever seen in a program, and utorrent's connectivity always managed to fail after a while even if worked properly at first. I even sent them a report telling them about it and about a week later of this report they announced they were discontinuing utorrent or something which I don't know if it was related to these problems or maybe others.
It seemed like nobody cared at that company about any of the programs and I wouldn't be surprised if it was themselves who actually were exploiting their own software to obtain private info to sell it to certain groups and accidentally enabled some faster but unsafe way to update the software because they simply don't care enough about their programs and only care about the $.