Anyone who has paid for porn on the popular porn site, Digital Playground, you might want to cancel your credit cards. It turns out; a hacker group called the Consortium has forced the site to time-out as they took the site hostage along with the names and personal information of 73,000 members.
That's not all! The group also snagged 40,000 credit card numbers and expiration dates, and they've also hacked the company's severs, which gave the marauders access to the firm's emails and files. The Consortium claimed Digital Playground as its first hack job, poking fun at the California-based company for its poor security. According to a message from The Consortium, the group did not set out to destroy the site, but they made it too enticing to resist. So, now their humble crew will leave "lulls and mayhem" in their path.
The Consortium also noted that Digital Playground had "no shortage of .mil and .gov emails on their user list." Now, that's hilarious! The group, which also seems to be associated with the notorious hacker group, Anonymous, released the names, but not the credit card numbers of the users, along with pornographic content on the site from its members and fan base. I guess using the word 'members' is a little odd in this particular blog. The group also issued personal information about some adult film stars.
The Consortium is punishing Digital Playground for 'allowing this to happen," but also said that the goal was not to punish people whose 'only crime was wanting some porn." Digital Playground stated that they had shut down on March 5 due to 'an alleged security breach" and are not taking in any new members while they upgrade their entire system in order to better safeguard their information.
Incidentally, this is the second time in a month that the porn world has been the victim of a hacker. Back in February, thousands of user emails and passwords were stolen from the adult site, YouPorn, who blamed a third-party chat service, which 'failed to take the appropriate precautions in securing its user data.' To be honest, it's not just porn sites that you need to worry about, though they seem to generate the most traffic. It's all websites with poor security! You should always be careful when you're placing your credit card number on the Internet. Stuff like that always scared the crap out of me because of Identity Theft being so high. So, be careful, people!
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