Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Digital Playground Hacked: 'The Consortium' Attacks Porn Site


A group of hackers calling themselves The Consortium is claiming to have accessed user data of over 70,000 users of the pornography website Digital Playground,according to Adult Video News.
The group also claims to have the credit card data -- including names, expiration dates and CVV codes -- for more than 40,000 of the members, but that it's not planning on using or releasing the information."...[W]e do this for the love of the game not for profit," a message purportedly written by the group said, according to the blog Naked Security, "and these peoples [sic] only crime was wanting some porn."In response, Luxembourg-based Manwin, the parent company of Digital Playground, shut down the site on March 5. While Digital Playground is currently live again for existing members, it is not accepting any new users."The site is currently operational for members and will be fully operational before the end of the week," Kate Miller, a spokesperson for Manwin, told The Huffington Post.Manwin has only owned Digital Playground since March 1, and the company said the hack may have happened before they officially became the new owner. However, aTwitter feed that PC Magazine reports belongs to The Consortium didn't announce the hack until March 4, four days after the sale become official.
This is at least the third time in two months that Manwin, which bills itself as "the largest network of adult websites in the world," has made headlines following a security breach.

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